Health Education for Nonreaders: Translating Across Cultures
Author: Rosales, Aracely
Date Published: 1995
The Latino Health Literacy Project reaches and educates people with different cultural backgrounds, who also have limited reading skills. This project develops, translates, and distributes health educational material for low-income, poor readers in its Latino community. This workshops shares strategies we have learned from adult educators and health educators. Through experiential exercises, participants gain a sense of what it is like to not understand. They learn effective methods of written materials assessment, development, and translations, and they participate in materials revision.
Date Published: 1995
The Latino Health Literacy Project reaches and educates people with different cultural backgrounds, who also have limited reading skills. This project develops, translates, and distributes health educational material for low-income, poor readers in its Latino community. This workshops shares strategies we have learned from adult educators and health educators. Through experiential exercises, participants gain a sense of what it is like to not understand. They learn effective methods of written materials assessment, development, and translations, and they participate in materials revision.
