REFERENCES

¹ Taking Down the Wall of Words (Part 2, Section 4), on The John Howard Society website at: www.johnhoward.ca/document/Wall/wall2_4.htm

² 1994 International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, that sampled 966 New Brunswick responses, as published by Statistics Canada in 2000. The IALS survey defined adult literacy as “the ability to understand and employ printed information in daily activities, at home, at work, and in the community– to achieve one’s goals, and to develop one’s knowledge and potential.” This definition reflects one’s ability to function in society.

³ According to Pauline Pelletier’s Provincial Literacy Coordinator report taken from the November/2002 Coordinators’ meeting.

⁴ Comprehensive Training Needs Assessment for Literacy in NB ,(page 7), prepared in October 2002, by Landal Inc., for Provincial Partners in Literacy.

⁵ Literacy Action Campaign 2001 Talking Points–Literacy at a Glance, on website at www.literacy.ca/lac/talking.htm

⁶ LD Basics, National Center for Learning Disabilities website at: www.ncld.org/info/index.cfm

⁷ LD Risks & Rewards, National Center for Learning Disabilities website at: www.ncld.org/livingwithld/adults_risks.cfm

⁸ VOICES of Canadian Literacy, edited by Lee Weinstein, and co-published by John Howard Society of Canada, 2002, in Kingston, ON(page 115).

⁹ Movement for Canadian Literacy Fact Sheet #9, on website at: www.literacy.ca/litand/9.htm

¹⁰ NLS International Literacy Day’s The Importance of Workplace Literacy to Canada, 2001.