Health Literacy

This brief explains what health literacy skills are and why they are important.

This toolkit provides communication techniques for facilitating a healthy living program for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD).

The resource presents a lesson plan at four skill levels for teaching English learners how to describe physical pain to healthcare providers.

This article details how health literacy is relevant to English lanuage learners (ELLs), reviews what the research tells us so far, and gives suggestions and resources to address health literacy in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) instruction.

This report details a project in which adult education students were trained to provide feedback to help hospitals improve their practices. A step-by-step process is provided enabling other adult education programs to replicate this project.

This article focuses on the use—and the lack of use—of health literacy within efforts to address public health in the United States.

This report describes a health literacy education program that is suitable for English language and adult literacy learners.

This study explores English-as-a-second-language (ESL) classrooms as a site for health literacy interventions.

Staying Healthy for Beginners is a curriculum that seeks to enhance students' understanding of health information, while at the same time improving their English language and literacy skills. The resource is a beginner’s addition to the original Staying Healthy: An English Learner’s Guide to Health Care and Healthy Living. 

Coping with Stress: A Special Addition to Staying Healthy – An English Learner's Guide to Health Care and Healthy is a special addition to the Staying Healthy: An English Learner's Guide to Health Care and Healthy Living curriculum. This resource is an introduction to stress and stress management.