- Health literacy Web page. General information, including a link to resources in three categories: information, resources for teaching, and cultural competence.
- Healthy People Consortium (www.healthypeople.gov). ASHA has been an active member of this mortality-reduction project of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, since 1989. The project aims to increase life expectancy and improve the quality of life for people of all ages, and eliminate health disparities among different segments of the population. For information, visit Healthy People 2010.
- E-newsletters. Two have focused on health literacy. Access Audiology devoted an entire issue to health literacy and plain language; Access SLP Health Care also included health literacy information in a recent issue.
- 2006 Convention sessions. Read handouts from ASHA Convention health literacy sessions at http://convention.asha.org/handouts.cfm.
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