Posted by NoTime_author in Tips on Sep 30th, 2009 | no responses

How can you best teach patients with poor functional health literacy skills?

Teaching Patients with Low Literacy Skills by Doak, Doak, & Root (1996) was the classic resource. It went out of print in 2006. Fortunately, the copyright on the text was returned to Ceci and Len Doak. They agreed to have the entire book posted on line by the Harvard School of Public Health at

http://notimetoteach.com/teachingpatientswithlowliteracyskills

This is a site you might want to bookmark for future reference.