Hi, A couple of observations. For context, my recent training qualification had a whole unit on this, and I need to deal with it at one of my day jobs. I'm not, however, an LLN (Language literacy and numeracy) expert.
- The initial email to Jim that started this was easy to read (it's at the 8th/9th-grade level). - It's going to depend on the list/target audience. The same level would not be needed on the board list as compared to a podlings list where most people's first language isn't English. - There is a large problem with LLN issues in the population in general. It bigger than you think. In Australia, about 40% of people don't have the required LLN skills needed to do their job and it a lot worse in a large number of countries. - People with poor LLN skills often go to great lengths to hide it or work around it. I’ve had first hand experience of this in the IT industry. A lead developer I worked with a few years back come across as a hacker (the bad kind) who write sloppy code with no comments and no documentation and had other odd behaviour. It was only after a year of working with him that I realised he had poor reading and writing skills and was covering up for those. He couldn't read stories to his 8 year-old son but had been able to hide this and be promoted to a senior level. Here's another illustration of the issue and one way of dealing with it [1]. A large engineering firm changed its employee contract into a more friendly and easy to understand, legally binding, cartoon. (My sister worked on this when she was diversity & inclusion manager there). Perhaps LLN assessment tool / questionnaire could be proposed? Or a couple of question in the upcoming D&I questionnaire? Thanks, Justin 1. https://www.aurecongroup.com/about/latest-news/2018/may/visual-employment-contract --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: diversity-h...@apache.org
