Good day, workplace literacy members,
 
Some of the NIFL moderators are trying out bundling the announcements
for upcoming discussions, and, since you have expressed that bundling
resources works well for you, and because there are so many
announcements of discussions taking place in the next two weeks, I am
bundling the following announcements.  Two of the three 
discussions listed are new from last week. Part I is an overview; Part 
II includes discussion details. 

Donna

Donna Brian, Moderator
Workplace Literacy Discussion List
Center for Literacy Studies at The University of Tennessee
djgbrian at utk.edu

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PART I: 



1) Topic: Planning Health Literacy Awareness Events 
Where held: Health & Literacy Discussion List 
When: April 23-27, 2007 
To participate, subscribe: www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/healthliteracy 
List Moderator: Julie McKinney, julie_mcKinney at worlded.org 


2) Topic: The Washington State Learning Disabilities Project 
Where held: Learning Disabilities Discussion List 
When: April 24th - April 26th. 
To participate, subscribe: 
http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Learningdisabilities 
List Moderator: Rochelle Kenyon, RKenyon721 at aol.com 


3) Topic: Effective Research Dissemination: Lessons from NCSALL 
Where Held: Focus on Basics Discussion List 
To participate, subscribe: 
http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Focusonbasics 
When: April 30 - May 4, 2007 
List Moderator: Julie McKinney, julie_mcKinney at worlded.org 





PART II: 

1) Topic: Planning Health Literacy Awareness Events 
Where held: Health & Literacy Discussion List 
When: April 23-27, 2007 
To participate, subscribe: www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/healthliteracy 
List Moderator: Julie McKinney, julie_mcKinney at worlded.org 

Guest: Helen Osborne, founder of Health Literacy Month and author of the

"Health Literacy Month Handbook: The Event Planning Guide for Health 
Literacy Advocates" 

Discussion Announcement: 
	October is Health Literacy Month, a time when health literacy
advocates 
around the world promote the importance of making health information 
understandable. This annual event actually started with a posting Helen 
Osborne made to the Health & Literacy Discussion List in 1999. 
	Now is the time to start making your plans for Health Literacy
Month 
2007. Helen will join us for an informative discussion about how you can

help raise local awareness about health literacy this October. 
	Helen has recently completed the "Health Literacy Month
Handbook: The 
Event Planning Guide for Health Literacy Advocates" and will share some 
of her expertise in this type of event planning including creating a 
vision, building a team, running events, and measuring success. We hope 
that this discussion will be a forum for health literacy advocates 
everywhere to exchange ideas, share resources, and learn from one
another. 

About the Guest Speaker: 
	Recognized as an expert in health literacy, Helen Osborne M.Ed.,
OTR/L 
helps health professionals communicate in ways patients and their 
families can understand. She is president of her own business, Health 
Literacy Consulting, based in Natick, Massachusetts. Helen is also the 
founder of Health Literacy Month - a worldwide campaign to raise 
awareness about the importance of understandable health information. 
	Helen speaks, consults, and writes about health literacy. She is
in her 
eighth year as a columnist for the Boston Globe's On Call magazine, 
writing about patient education and healthcare communication. In 
addition to the new Health Literacy Month Handbook, Helen is also the 
author of several other books including the award-winning Health 
Literacy from A to Z: Practical Ways to Communicate Your Health Message 
published by Jones & Bartlett. To learn more about Helen's work, please 
visit the Health Literacy Consulting website at www.healthliteracy.com. 

Recommended Reading: 
Health Literacy Month Website http://www.healthliteracy.com/hl_month.asp

	This website includes a searchable database of Health Literacy
Month 
events as well as a form to submit how your organization is 
participating. The website has resources including a free downloadable 
Health Literacy Month logo. 

In Other Words...It's Time to Get Involved in Health Literacy Month 
http://www.healthliteracy.com/article.asp?PageID=3752 
	Published as a column in "On Call Magazine", this article by
Helen 
Osborne outlines some basics of getting involved in Health Literacy 
Month. 

In Other Words...Why Health Literacy Matters 
http://www.healthliteracy.com/article.asp?PageID=3791 
	This article includes accounts from patients, providers and
policy 
makers of why we all need to address health literacy. 

	In Other Words...Measuring the Effectiveness of Health Literacy 
Interventions 
http://www.healthliteracy.com/article.asp?PageID=3753 
	This article focuses on why it is important to measure the
effectiveness 
of your health communication efforts. 


We hope you can join us for this discussion! Please forward this 
announcement to all your colleagues and friends interested in learning 
more about awareness-raising events. 



2) Topic: The Washington State Learning Disabilities Project 
Where held: Learning Disabilities Discussion List 
When: April 24th - April 26th. 
To participate, subscribe: 
http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Learningdisabilities 
List Moderator: Rochelle Kenyon, RKenyon721 at aol.com 

Guest Participants: 
Judy Campbell - LD Specialist, IEL Center Spokane, WA 
Candyce Rennegarbe - LD Specialist, Tacoma Community College, WA 
Jimmie Smith - LD Specialist, Renton Technical College, WA 

Discussion Announcement 
Outline of Topics: 
Tuesday, April 24 
Judy Campbell - LD Specialist, IEL Center Spokane, WA 
LD Specialist work with Adult Basic Education programs 
Interviewing, Screening, Referral Process, Training Teachers,
Referrals to community agencies, Requesting GED accommodations, 
Working with Disabled Student Services partners, Outcomes.

Wednesday, April 25 
Candyce Rennegarbe - LD Specialist, Tacoma Community College, WA 
History of LDQI Project with Judy Alamprese 
State Office of Adult Basic Education Support 
Development of Handbook on our universal design, screening, 
referral, and testing model 
LD Specialist Training - California Model 
Testing students for learning disabilities 
Trainings for teachers and administrators 
Next steps for project 

Thursday, April 26 
Jimmie Smith - LD Specialist, Renton Technical College, WA 
Universal Design Learning 
Renton Dept. of Ed. UDL Grant 
UDL, Screening and Testing process 
LD Specialist position in community colleges 
Working with Disabled Student Services partners on campus 
Working with faculty on campus 
Tool Kit 
Outcomes 


Biographies: 

Judy Campbell, M.Ed. is a Learning Disability Specialist who has worked 
in Adult Basic education for the past seventeen years. Judy began as a 
Reading Teacher who watched many of her students struggle to make 
progress and fail to achieve their educational goals. She desperately 
wanted to know how to identify the barriers that were holding her 
students back. When she first attended a teacher training given by 
Nancie Payne, she felt like she had walked out of the dark into the 
light. In 1999, she attended the training "Supporting Adults with 
Learning Disabilities and Other Special Learning Needs" taught by Nancie

Payne and Neil Sturomski made available through Washington State Board 
of Community and Technical Colleges Office of Adult Literacy. She 
eventually became a trainer and worked with teachers to share what she 
had learned. She then became part of the federally funded Quality 
Initiative with the state focus on creating a systematic process for 
serving students with learning challenges (LDQI). For the past two 
years, her ABE program has been part of the Renton grant on Universal 
Learning. It has been an exciting journey. 

Jimmie Lou Smith is a Learning Disabilities Specialist and Counselor for

Basic Studies at Renton Technical College. She has 30 years of 
experience in the field of education and 13 of those years have been 
working with an adult population in a college environment. Jimmie's 
passion is helping students be successful. Being a part of the LDQI 
and the Universal Design for Learning project has allowed her to do just

that. She has had the opportunity to share her experience and training 
with others in workshops and conferences and will be a presenter at the 
Pacific Northwest Higher Education Conference next month. 

Candyce Engquist Rennegarbe, M.A., is a learning disability specialist 
and instructor in the Adult Basic Education Department at Tacoma 
Community College, Washington where she has worked for the past 10 
years. She has spent over 27 years working with students with learning 
disabilities in clinics, as a resource specialist in K - 12, and now 
with adults in the community colleges. Candyce is proudest of her 
efforts with the Washington State Learning Disability Project building a

system to offer students screening, strategies, and testing as well as 
offering trainings for teachers and ld specialists. Her trainings have 
been well received throughout Washington, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, and 
Texas. 

Additional Readings: 

To refresh your memory on the previous discussion, you can read the 
following archived messages: 
http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/learningdisabilities/2007/001049.html 

http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/learningdisabilities/2007/date.html 

http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/learningdisabilities/2007/001056.html 

http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/learningdisabilities/2007/001057.html 

http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/learningdisabilities/2007/001055.html 

http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/learningdisabilities/2007/001064.html 




3) Topic: Effective Research Dissemination: Lessons from NCSALL 
Where Held: Focus on Basics Discussion List 
To participate, subscribe: 
http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Focusonbasics 
When: April 30 - May 4, 2007 
List Moderator: Julie McKinney, julie_mcKinney at worlded.org 

Guest Participant: Cristine Smith, former Deputy Director, NCSALL 
	This discussion will be geared toward professional development
practitioners and discuss the lessons learned during the course of
NCSALL's journey in disseminating adult education research, connecting
it to practice and and enhancing its usefulness. Cris Smith, who
authored the article of the same name in FOB 8C, will lead this
discussion. She is the former deputy director of NCSALL.

About the guest speaker:

	She also served as the national coordinator of dissemination
research and development initiatives over NCSALL's 10 years (the
Practitioner Dissemination and Research Network
(PDRN) and Connecting Practice, Policy and Research (CPPR) initiatives),
designed to help practitioners access, understand, judge and use
research.
She holds an Ed.D. from the University of Massachusetts, and she is
currently an Assistant Professor at the Center for International
Education at UMass Amherst.

Recommended reading:
Effective Research Dissemination: Lessons from NCSALL by Cristine Smith,
Mary Beth Bingman, & Kaye Beall
http://www.ncsall.net/?id=1157 

The National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
(NCSALL) has conducted and shared its research with the goal of having
an impact on the quality of instruction and service to adult learners.
Over the past 10 years, NCSALL has tried a variety of approaches to
disseminating their research in ways that will help to reach this goal.
This article revisits this journey and shares some lessons that were
learned along the way.

Connecting Research and Practice: A look at what is known about research
utilization and what NCSALL does in that regard by Barbara Garner, Beth
Bingman, John Comings, Karen Rowe, & Cristine Smith
http://www.ncsall.net/?id=290

This article, from 2001, describes NCSALL's efforts so far to connect
research to practice.

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Julie McKinney
Discussion List Moderator
World Education/NCSALL
jmckinney at worlded.org