Browse by subject "Plain/Clear Communication"
81. Ideas and Strategies: Building Success for Adults with FASD (2010)
Series: Literacy Kit for Adults with FASD
Authors: Regina Community Clinic
Collection: Learning Materials
This booklet contains three presentations that would be helpful to employers, employment counsellors or any agencies that support people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), a permanent brain injury that occurs during pregnancy.
The authors explain that people with FASD have problems processing information and often struggle to understand what they hear and read. The first presentation focuses on using plain language, while the second offers strategies for speaking in a way that someone with FASD will be able to understand.
In the third presentation, the authors offer background information on FASD and discuss some of the misconceptions about this disability.
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Added: 2011-05-24
82. International Literacy Day: Social Media Guide (2011)
Authors: Ontario Literacy Coalition, ABC Life Literacy Canada, Frontier College
Collection: Learning Materials
The Ontario Literacy Coalition, ABC Life Literacy Canada, and Frontier College joined forces to prepare this guide to using social media to promote International Literacy Day, celebrated every year on September 8. For 2011, the partner organizations chose to focus on the importance of literacy and essential skills for everyone, everywhere.
The authors have included information about activities the partner organizations have planned for International Literacy Day. As well, they have provided pre-made “tweets” to be used on the social networking tool Twitter or turned into Facebook status updates.
They have also included Facebook posts and discussion questions; poll questions organizations may want to ask visitors to their sites; and a list of literacy organizations that are on Twitter.
Added: 2011-08-26
83. The Irish of the Miramichi (1985)
Series: Miramichi Literacy Writers
Authors: Dawn MacLean, Merle Milson, Miramichi Literacy Writers
Collection: Learning Materials
This booklet was written in clear language and is suitable for adult new readers. It is part of a series of 24 booklets by Miramichi Literacy Writers. Some of the other titles include:
Ferry Boats of Days Gone By
The Irish of the Miramichi
Native Peoples of the Miramichi
Old Lumber Camps on the Miramichi
The Dungarvon Whooper
Added: 2009-05-08
84. It gets in your brain... (2005)
Effective Practices in Adult Literacy Using Speech Assisted Reading and Writing (SARAW) with People with Disabilities
Series: Literacy and Disabilities Study (LaDS)
Authors: Audrey Gardner
Collection: Learning Materials
Like a tool kit or handbook this guide offers activities, resources, and suggestions to help you increase literacy learning opportunities for adults with physical and/or intellectual disabilities.
The guide is for instructors, tutors and coordinators in adult literacy programs and support workers and coordinators in disabilities and rehabilitation programs and organizations.
By increasing your capacity to assist adults to strengthen their literacy skills, you are supporting individuals to communicate with others and participate in their communities.
Added: 2006-04-19
85. Job Talk (2008)
Series: Skills for Jobs: A Resource Tool for Tutors of Low-Level Literacy
Authors: Chya Bergman, Carolyn Wilson
Collection: Learning Materials
This document is one in a series of three binders designed as resources for tutors of low-literacy adults. The goal of the series is to help tutors identify the workplace essential skills a student already has, increase his skill set, and develop his awareness of his own capabilities.
In Job Talk, the authors focus on preparing learners for the kinds of conversations that occur in various work situations. The exercises include vocabulary and sample conversations, as well as questions aimed at prompting discussions about the workplace.
Added: 2010-07-15
86. Joseph Cunard (1985)
Series: Miramichi Literacy Writers
Authors: Merle Milson, Miramichi Literacy Writers
Collection: Learning Materials
This booklet was written in clear language and is suitable for adult new readers. It is part of a series of 24 booklets by Miramichi Literacy Writers. Some of the other titles include:
Ferry Boats of Days Gone By
The Irish of the Miramichi
Native Peoples of the Miramichi
Old Lumber Camps on the Miramichi
The Dungarvon Whooper
Added: 2009-04-21
87. Just A Simple Little Ditty (1996)
Song In The Literacy Curriculum
Series: Wayfaring Journeys in Language, Learning and Culture
Authors: William T. Fagan
Collection: Learning Materials
Just A Simple Little Ditty by William T. Fagan is a story in the book Wayfaring Journeys in Language, Learning and Culture, it is a collection of writings by ABE instructors and students in Newfoundland brought together for a ‘language awareness project', designed to explore attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge about language and the teaching of language.
"Even in the book's earliest stages, the concept of wayfaring, travelling close to the ground, was prominent as a metaphor for the literacy we need inside classrooms, and inside ourselves."
This is also a useful contribution to the literature of practitioner research and inquiry.
Added: 2004-06-07
88. Keep Your Body Fit! (2007)
Authors: Vocational and Rehabilitation Research Institute (VRRI)
Collection: Learning Materials
This is one in a series of booklets prepared by the Calgary-based Vocational and Rehabilitation Research Institute (VRRI), an agency that helps people with disabilities as well as the community at large.
The authors describe the three components of physical fitness -- strength, flexibility, and endurance – and offer suggestions for improving each of those measures. They include a colour-coded plan the reader can fill in with fitness activities for each day of the week.
Part of the document is in the style of a workbook, with the reader being asked to fill in the answers to questions like "How do I keep my body strong?"
The material is easy to read. The document has many illustrations, including ones that show people in wheelchairs engaging in physical activity.
VRRI is now called Vecova Centre for Disability Services and Research (Vecova): http://vecova.ca/.
Added: 2012-03-05
89. Knowing When Enough is Enough: A resource about alcohol use and abuse for youth with low-English literacy – Facilitator’s Guide (2010)
Authors: Vocational and Rehabilitation Research Institute (VRRI)
Collection: Learning Materials
This facilitator’s guide is part of Knowing When Enough is Enough, a resource prepared by the Calgary-based Vocational and Rehabilitation Research Institute (VRRI), an agency that helps people with disabilities as well as the community at large.
In addition to the facilitator’s guide, the resource includes a comic and fact sheets, written in plain language, for the participants.
The facilitator’s guide includes information on alcohol, including what constitutes a standard drink, and suggestions for leading discussions about peer pressure, coping and refusal skills, and social consequences.
The resource includes instructions and materials for group learning activities, like the cookie exercise, which helps young people learn strategies for dealing with peer pressure.
The authors note that the program can be used in a classroom, a small group, or one on one.
VRRI is now called Vecova Centre for Disability Services and Research (Vecova): http://vecova.ca/.
Added: 2012-01-27
90. Knowing When Enough is Enough: Comic Book (2010)
Authors: Vocational and Rehabilitation Research Institute (VRRI)
Collection: Learning Materials
This comic book is part of the Knowing When Enough is Enough resource, prepared by the Calgary-based Vocational and Rehabilitation Research Institute (VRRI), an agency that helps people with disabilities as well as the community at large.
The comic tells the story of a teenage boy’s night of excessive drinking and the consequences it has, including finding embarrassing photos of himself posted on Facebook.
The authors have also included information about alcohol poisoning, binge drinking, and myths about hangovers.
VRRI is now called Vecova Centre for Disability Services and Research (Vecova): http://vecova.ca/.
Added: 2012-01-27
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