Beratung durch das persönliche Umfeld funktionaler Analphabeten und Analphabetinnen

Functional illiteracy is often perceived as being connected to a strong taboo. Nevertheless new empirical results show, that there is a widespread personal knowledge about functional illiterates. About 40?% of adults know someone who shows low performance in literacy. This knowledge theoretically offers great potential to inform those performing low in reading and/or writing about possibilities in Adult Basic Education. This potential however is by far not fully exploited. By the majority those who know someone with low performance in reading and writing do not inform this person about reading and writing classes. This can partly be explained by a severe lack of information not only for the person concerned but also for their networks of support.