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functional illiteracy Social medicine The inability to read and write enough to effectively function in an office or business. Cf Complete illiteracy. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A steep claim indeed, yet the author is prepared to back it up with an in-depth examination of how the technology is used, its benefits especially to sight-impaired or functionally illiterate individuals, current trends in computing, and much more. Alarmingly, only one in every 10 workers deemed functionally illiterate is enrolled in literacy classes and half of them drop out within three weeks, said the study by the United Way of Greater Los Angeles. This at first appeared to be unrealistic, since more than 30 per cent of the adolescents coming to Servol were functionally illiterate. |
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