Toolkit Part 1: About this Toolkit

This page links to the download for Toolkit Part 1, About this Toolkit and how it can help you.  This part covers the following topics:

• What is the Toolkit?
• The Toolkit focuses on written material for CMS audiences.
  • What are "CMS audiences"?
  • What do we mean by "written material"?
• What are "low literacy skills"?
  • How are literacy skills measured?
  • This Toolkit is oriented toward the needs of readers with only Basic level literacy skills.
  • If material works well for people with Basic level literacy skills, is it also suitable for those with skills above the Basic level?
• The Toolkit is a health literacy resource.
  • What is health literacy and why is it a concern?
  • What can be done to improve health literacy?
  • What about written material and health literacy?
  • The Toolkit is a health literacy resource for improving written material.
  • We take a reader-centered approach to developing and testing written material.
• How can the Toolkit help you?
  • What tools does it offer?
  • How can you use the Toolkit?

To view Toolkit Part 1, click the download listed below.  You are also allowed to save or print a copy of this download from your personal computer.