Key findings of emergent literacy research conclude that emergent literacy experiences correlate with later reading success and that emergent literacy intervention for children with special needs is essential. As a group with special needs, children with Down syndrome require emergent literacy intervention. They may attain functional literacy skills and their language development determines the...

OBJECTIVES To review the relationship between parent and child literacy and child health outcomes and interventions designed to improve child health outcomes for children or parents with low literacy skills. METHODS We searched Medline and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) for articles published from 1980 through 2008 and included studies that reported orig...

BACKGROUND Health literacy is of increasing importance in public health research. It is a necessary pre-condition for the involvement in decisions about health and health care and related to health outcomes. Knowledge about limited health literacy in different age groups is crucial to better target public health interventions for subgroups of the population. However, little is known about healt...

BACKGROUND This paper details the role of different dimensions of health literacy in the relationship between health literacy and cancer-related health behaviours. In particular, Cancer Literacy is studied as an exemplar of a dimension of health literacy beyond basic reading and writing skills. The link between functional health literacy, Cancer Literacy and cancer-related health behaviours is ...

Energy conservation and environmental protection are crucial to green development. This article distinguishes the relationship between electricity literacy, energy saving awareness information feedback. We found that i) literacy feedback negatively correlated with consumption, ii) there is a positive correlation consumption living area, household income, permanent resident population education ...

We provide new insights into (i) the level of energy-related financial literacy in Finnish households, (ii) sociodemographic characteristics that affect literacy, and (iii) whether influences household electricity consumption. use a data set consisting questions combined with monthly consumption data. draw from recent literature on suggest two variables based subjective perceptions literacy. Ge...

s, United Kingdom) for the dates 1990-2000, was undertaken for the latest reports pertaining to literacy including: major surveys, evaluation studies, manuals on libraries and literacy, plus recent major national or regional literacy movements that involved libraries. The search could only be characterized as cursory, mainly English-language based, and selective for materials available from a l...

pon successful completion of this article, the pharmacist should be able to: 1. describe the status of literacy in the United States 2. define functional health literacy and its relationship to health outcomes. 3. describe how to assess low health literacy in community pharmacy patients. 4. address low health literacy in the community pharmacy setting through patient counseling. 5. address low ...

BACKGROUND Few studies have investigated how people with aphasia (PWA) experience literacy skills. Taking the insider's perspective is a way to increase understanding of the individual experiences of literacy among PWA, which may have clinical implications. AIMS To describe how literacy, i.e., reading and writing, is experienced in everyday life by PWA and to gain insight into the part played...

The aim of this study was to find valid neurocognitive precursors of literacy development in first language (L1, Norwegian) and second language (L2, English) in a group of children during their Pre-literacy, Emergent Literacy and Literacy stages, by comparing children with dyslexia and a typical group. Children who were 5 years old at project start were followed until the age of 11, when dyslex...