9. “He had a difficulty with words as a child and was in a special needs class in primary school” “As a kid, if you’re told you can’t read and write, you think you’re bad at life” Anh Do - The Happiest Refugee smh.com.au Spectrum March 19-20
RTI – evidence based service delivery / problem solving method to inform development of interventions / integrated data collectionPBS – improving social behaviour and in class coroperation so learning can be facilitated.
survey to identify and measure literacy linked to social and economic characteristics of people – 15 to 74 year olds46-47% had literacy levels below ‘functionalliteracy’ – that is, the literacy skills necessary to met the complex demands of everyday life and work in the emerging knowledge-based societylinks between employment / income / use of technologylink with health literacy – 60% functioning below minimum requirements required to understand and use information relating to health