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Today, on your way to work, running errands or picking up your children from school, you may have passed an illiterate person. You may have even exchanged a few words with them without realizing what their difficulties were. It may even be someone you know, your spouse, father, sister or friend.
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Jan 17, 2021 · One in six adult Canadians falls short of passing the most basic set of literacy tests, making them functionally illiterate, and this could mean problems as a post-COVID-19 economic recovery...
For the record, where I'm from (Ontario, Canada), we have to pass a literacy test in grade 10 in order to graduate from high school. If you don't pass, you have to do it again. If you still don't pass, you get placed in a special class to help become literate.
Best, fastest way to research this for your particular novel would actually be to decide what state the person lives in, and go from there. Contact some state department of social services and just say you're a novelist researching this. Shouldn't be that hard to figure out who would know.
Dec 1, 2010 · Writing is a fine movement activity; therefore, illiterate people may be less proficient with complex motor tests when compared with people able to write. In fact, several studies have supported this hypothesis.
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Illiteracy is the inability to read and understand simple text and to use or transmit written information in everyday life.1The presence of these difficulties hinders integration into society2. There are many underlying causes to illiteracy, such as children with little education.
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May 31, 2022 · Without proper access to services that can help a struggling reader or identify an undiagnosed reading disability early on, children who are most in need of intervention are simply passed over. “If you haven’t been taught how to read before third grade,” says Levinsohn, “it’s unlikely that you ever will, because teachers are moving on.
