This course is the first of two in NALA's Literacy Awareness online series. The second course is 'Becoming literacy friendly'.

In your work, do you have contact with people with unmet literacy needs?

This course will help you to understand the experience and impact of unmet literacy, numeracy and digital literacy needs on adults in Irish society.

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Describe adult literacy, numeracy and digital literacy, their causes and effects and the scale of literacy needs in Ireland.
• Understand the experience and impact of unmet literacy, numeracy and digital literacy needs on adults in Irish society.
• Identify the role of literacy in our lives and how it is linked to equality and human rights.

You will receive a NALA Professional Development certificate on successful completion of this course.

In your work, do you have contact with people with unmet literacy needs?

This course on becoming literacy friendly will help you to create a literacy friendly service that is person centered.

The course will help you to use a literacy friendly approach in your work.

• You will hear from people who have made changes in their workplace to make it more literacy friendly. 
• You will find out what the benefits are from both the staff and customer perspective. 
• You will hear about practical tips on how to communicate more effectively and learn about using plain English.

You will receive a NALA Professional Development certificate on successful completion of this course.

This course is the second of two courses in NALA's Literacy Awareness online series. The first course is Understanding adult literacy, numeracy and digital literacy.

The Irish Cancer Society and the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) joined forces to produce a short eLearning course for healthcare professionals that explores the benefits of good health literacy practice in cancer care. MSD Ireland funded the course.

The course aims to:

• Raise awareness of how health literacy issues can affect cancer patients.
• Give an overview of health literacy-friendly communication approaches and tips. These include the universal precautions approach to health literacy, teachback and tips for writing plain language patient information.

Please note: This course is hosted on www.nala.ie and takes about 20 minutes to complete. We recommend you complete it in one sitting as your progress does not save.

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For more information on this project, see Irish Cancer Society and NALA launch cancer health literacy eLearning course.

This course is designed as an introduction to Integrating Literacy. It is the first of two modules in NALA's Integrating Literacy online course.

This course will give you the opportunity to pause, reflect on and further develop your knowledge about literacy and integrating literacy. The course explores integrating literacy from a whole organisation and from a practitioner perspective.

You will receive a NALA Professional Development certificate on successful completion of this course.

This course is a practical guide to Integrating Literacy. It is the second of two modules in NALA's Integrating Literacy online series.

This course will delve deeper into NALA’s Integrating Literacy Guidelines and will provide you with a range of useful templates, resources and tips from experienced tutors, to support you in your work in integrating literacy.

You will receive a NALA Professional Development certificate on successful completion of this course.

This course is designed to help adult literacy tutors to prepare and design learning materials. It looks at the context for developing materials as well as how to plan, design, format and write learning materials. The course gives tips on adapting and simplifying materials and at the end of the course there are sample materials that you can view and download. The course takes about 1 hour to complete.

You will receive a NALA Professional Development certificate on successful completion of this course.