Health Information

graphic: pencil bullet Breen, Mary J. and Janice Wood Catano, “Can She Read It? — Readability and Literacy in Health Education” in Healthsharing, Summer 1987.
   
graphic: pencil bullet The following resources are available from the Canadian Public Health Association, Health Resources Centre, 400-1565 Carling Ave., Ottawa, ON K1Z 8R1

Easy Does It! — Health Communications Training Package
Face to Face — a video about effective oral communication
(plain.word)™ CD-Rom Game — a game to help simplify language
Working with Low literacy Seniors

Legal Writing

graphic: pencil bullet Child, Barbara, Drafting Legal Documents-Materials and Problems, West Publishing, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1988.
   
graphic: pencil bullet Felsenfeld, Carl and Alan Siegel, Writing Contracts in Plain English, West Publishing, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1981
   
graphic: pencil bullet Flesh, Rudolf, How to Write Plain English: A Book for Lawyers and Consumers, Harper and Row, 1979.
   
graphic: pencil bullet Stephens, Cheryl, Plain Language Legal Writing, ASAP Legal Publishing, Vancouver, BC, 1998
Tel: 604-685-2727       Toll free: 1-800-605-2727