caa a22 4500 465757200 CHVBK 20180323111850.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19901201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01108466 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01108466 Literacy skills of welfare recipients [Elektronische Daten] [George Marsh II, Carolyn Pollan, Anna McFadden, Barrie Price] Illiteracy is considered to be a significant barrier to employment. Programs are being established to require literacy education and work programs of welfare recipients. The purpose of this study was to determine the literacy skills of a random sample of welfare recipients. One-hundred and six welfare subjects were administered theWoodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery and a comprehensive interview form. Using common criteria to separate the sample into the literate and functionally illiterate, the groups were found to differ significantly on intellectual capabilities. It was concluded that illiteracy is associated with subaverage intellectual functioning among persons on welfare. A number of recommendations were made pertaining to policy. Human Sciences Press, Inc, 1990 Marsh II George College of Education and Center for Communications and Educational Technology, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa aut Pollan Carolyn Literacy for Jobs, Fort Smith, Arkansas aut McFadden Anna College of Education and Center for Communications and Educational Technology, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa aut Price Barrie College of Education and Center for Communications and Educational Technology, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa aut The Urban Review Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 22/4(1990-12-01), 299-304 0042-0972 22:4<299 1990 22 11256 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01108466 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01108466 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Marsh II George College of Education and Center for Communications and Educational Technology, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pollan Carolyn Literacy for Jobs, Fort Smith, Arkansas aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McFadden Anna College of Education and Center for Communications and Educational Technology, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Price Barrie College of Education and Center for Communications and Educational Technology, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Urban Review Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 22/4(1990-12-01), 299-304 0042-0972 22:4<299 1990 22 11256 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer