10.3. Definitions of Literacy
- The Literacy Preparation Project for Adults with Developmental Disabilities: Training Manual
- The ability to read and write, commensurate with capability, as well as personal and social needs
- Literacy Strategic Plan for the Northwest Territories
- Literacy is an individual's ability to listen, speak, read, write, view,
represent, compute and solve problems in one or more of the NWT official
languages at levels of proficiency necessary to
function in the family, the community and on the job
- The Roeher Institute's "Literacy, Disability and Communication"
- To be literate is to have status, respect and accommodation from others;
to have skills in communication (verbal, written, sign, gestures, or other
language); and to have access to the information
and technologies that make possible self–determined participation in
the communication processes of one's communities and broader society
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