Did you know that 40-50% of adults in the U.S. have basic or low English literacy skills? This includes both native and non-native speakers, many of whom have learned to mask their literacy challenges. Low literacy significantly affects daily life and can impact therapy effectiveness. Often, when therapy isn’t resonating, it’s due to a mismatch between therapeutic interventions and the client’s literacy level.

Join Low-Literacy in Therapy Workshop to learn strategies for identifying clients with low literacy, adapting therapeutic paperwork and interventions, and empowering clients to succeed in both their mental health and literacy journeys.

Upon Completion, Participants will be able to: 

• Name three clues that a client may struggle with literacy

• Understand two ways that low literacy levels can impact the traditional therapeutic process

• Identify three ways to modify interventions to make them more accessible to those with low literacy skills

• Increase readability of documents using federal readability guidelines

• Explain the differences and intersections between low literacy, reading disabilities, and English language learning