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Direct linkPatterson, Margaret Becker – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2022
Learning disabilities (LD) impact the lives of many U.S. adults, who may also have other disabilities and health conditions. Adults with LD face educational and employment challenges. Little is known about their skills in digital literacy and how they use those skills at work or at home. The study's objective was to investigate digital literacy…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Learning Disabilities, Adults, Computer Use
Patterson, Margaret Becker – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2023
Adults with learning disabilities (LD) face educational and employment challenges and may also have other disabilities and health conditions. Little is known about these adults' numeracy skills and how they use numeracy at work or home. The article's objective was to investigate numeracy skills and skill use for U.S. adults with LD. The author…
Descriptors: Adults, Learning Disabilities, Numeracy, Mathematics Skills
Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Reed, Deborah K.; Branum-Martin, Lee; Nwosu, Nonyé A. O. – Journal of Correctional Education, 2019
This study used the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) prison sample to explore the predictive contributions of Print Vocabulary and Sentence Processing skills to the Literacy and Passage Comprehension performance of 461 U.S. prisoners. Both predictors were significant, but Print Vocabulary accounted for less…
Descriptors: Correlation, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Literacy
