Groce, N.; Bakhshi, P. 2011a. "Illiteracy among Adults with Disabilities in the Developing World: a review of the literature and a call for action". Journal of Inclusive Education. online http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lc- ccr/centrepublications/nora_groce_publications...
When I first arrived in Wila Kjarka in 1989, there was a one-room schoolhouse and a single teacher for the first three years of schooling, so all children were taught together. No adults in the community (apart from the schoolteacher) had had more than three years of schooling (children...
in each sample.Regardless of the neuropathologic criteria used, education is predictive of dementia status among individuals with neuropathologic Alzheimer disease. These results support the theory that individuals with greater cognitive reserve, as reflected in years of education, are better able to ...
the level of ability that is functional within any particular society. The term generally refers to a condition of personhood that is defined both in terms of its popular appeal to indicate or invoke a form of social pathology or to place an individual or group in terms of social rank or ...
Rates of illiteracy are relatively high among older adults in Mexico, due to limited access to formal education, but some people attained literacy despite not attending school. To assess the unique contribution of literacy to MCI independent of educational achievement in a Mexican population, we ...
By allocating about 80 percent of literacy activities to girls and women, especially in rural areas, the literacy index among women has increased more rapidly, he said, adding that the literacy rate of women before the revolution was 26.2 percent in the age group of 10 to 49 years, which ...
On a global scale, illiteracy affects 774 million adults aged 15 or older. Among developed nations, the U.S. ranks 16th for adult reading skills. 3. How many adults only read at the lowest proficiency level? Between 40 and 44 million adults, or roughly 20 to 23% of adults in the U....
India has the dubious distinction of being among the top ten on two very different lists: It ranks at the top of the nations of the world with its 270 million illiterate adults, the largest in the world, as detailed by a just releasedUNESCO report on education; India also shows up atnum...
Starting in 1948, UNLA helped establish numerous schools thatoffered basic literacy classes for both children and adults. However, UNLA’s mostoriginal initiative was the creation of the so-called“People’s Cultural Centers”:under the guidance of a UNLA teacher, adults who had already ...
In the early 1990s, UNESCO estimated that perhaps 97% of the world's 650 million disabled persons were unable to read or write, leading to significant efforts tGroce, NoraBakshi, ParulSocial Science Electronic PublishingGroce, E. N., & Bakshi, P. (2009). Illiteracy among Adults with ...