A Review about Functional Illiteracy: Definition, Cognitive, Linguistic, and Numerical Aspects.

ABSTRACT: Formally, availability of education for children has increased around the world over the last decades. However, despite having a successful formal education career, adults can become functional illiterates. Functional illiteracy means that a person cannot use reading, writing, and calculation skills for his/her own and the community's development. Functional illiteracy has considerable negative effects not only on personal development, but also in economic and social terms. Although functional illiteracy has been highly publicized in mass media in the recent years, there is limited scientific knowledge about the people termed functional illiterates; definition, assessment, and differential diagnoses with respect to related numerical and linguistic impairments are rarely studied and controv

SUBMITTER: Vagvolgyi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5102880 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature