Teaching the illiterate client does not have to be a problem

Melinda M. Dunn; Kathleen C. Buckwalter; Lenore B. Weinstein; Hava Palti

doi:10.1097/00003727-198511000-00009

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Teaching the illiterate client does not have to be a problem

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Teaching the illiterate client does not have to be a problem

Melinda M. Dunn, Kathleen C. Buckwalter, Lenore B. Weinstein and Hava Palti

Family & community health, Vol.8(3), pp.76-87

01/01/1985

DOI: 10.1097/00003727-198511000-00009

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Explores the dilemma encountered by health care providers in working with illiterate clients. It is asserted that illiterate clients do not have to be viewed as a teaching problem but rather should be seen as a challenge requiring alternative and innovative teaching strategies. Such strategies include using pictorial cues/jigs using drawings or photographs to teach functional skills such as taking medicine and changing dressings, and using audiotapes to facilitate client education about signs and symptoms of recurrent disease and side effects of medication. (7 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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Title: Subtitle: Teaching the illiterate client does not have to be a problem
Creators: Melinda M. Dunn
Kathleen C. Buckwalter - University of Iowa
Lenore B. Weinstein
Hava Palti
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Family & community health, Vol.8(3), pp.76-87
DOI: 10.1097/00003727-198511000-00009
NLM abbreviation: Fam Community Health
ISSN: 0160-6379
eISSN: 1550-5057
Language: English
Date published: 01/01/1985
Academic Unit: Nursing
Record Identifier: 9983557465402771

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