The Health Literacy Advisor (HLA) is the nation's first, only, and most powerful health literacy software tool. As a "health literacy checker," the HLA streamlines the review and simplification process by allowing users to assess the health of their documents and then fix it using plain language principles.

Assess

Use one or all nine different readability indices and "grade" documents for their readability:

• Fry-Based Electronic Readability Formula
• Precise SMOG
• Gunning-Fog
• Automated Readability Index (ARI)
• Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level
• Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease
• New Dale-Chall Formula
• FORCAST Readability Formula
• Coleman-Liau Index

Fix

• Flag complicated words by health or non-health
• Find long sentences with 15 or more words
• See words with three or more syllables
• Change complicated words, medical jargon or hard to understand words with plain language alternatives
• Use one of our 12,000 plain language alternatives for simpler, easier, clearer words for consumers
• Readability level — change from 3rd to 8th grade reading level standards within seconds

Celebrate

• The HLA rewards users with a Reads Easy™ stamp for meeting their goals

The HLA Difference

• No need to cut and paste to a text box
• Ability to do work in Word
• Free Style Guide to help with design and layout
• We know our stuff! The HLA was developed by seasoned health literacy professionals who understand that clear health communication can enhance health outcomes, the Health Literacy Advisor improves health communication one word at a time

The Spanish HLA (el Asesor de Comunicación en Salud™) has all of the great features of the HLA, in Spanish for Spanish language documents.

Use any of six different readability indices:

• Fry-Based Formula (Gilliam-Peña-Mountain)
• Läsbarhetsindex (LIX)
• Rate Index (RIX)
• Crawford Grade Level
• Flesch Reading Ease (Huerta-Fernandez)
• SOL Index (Spanish SMOG)

Each Health Literacy Advisor user must license the software each year.

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Health Literacy Innovations offers quality trainings and presentations for today's health care professionals to help them create and enhance clear health communications. For more than two decades, our experts have trained and assisted health care professionals to improve health literacy for their consumers with low literacy.

If your organization is new to health literacy, we offer information, training, and resources to help learn practical strategies and become an effective advocate for improved health literacy.

If you are already familiar with health literacy, our advanced training can help you to build knowledge to improve the usability of health information, health services, and advocacy for health literacy within your organization.

If you are interested in any of the following training or presentations, please contact us for a custom price quote.

Trainings and presentations include:

Health Literacy Overview: Say What? Understanding Health Literacy, The Basics™

Purpose: To increase awareness of the issue of health literacy and its effect on health care costs and outcomes to the health care industry/systems and the consumer. This presentation includes:

• What is health literacy?
• Why is health literacy so important?
• What are the approaches and solutions?
• What resources are available?

Plain Language Materials Development: Say it Clear, Say it in Plain Language™

Purpose: To understand and to learn plain language techniques to create clear health materials, programs, and campaign messages for today's diverse health care consumers. This training includes:

• What is plain language?
• Why use plain language?
• How to use/create plain language
• How to develop appropriate written materials in plain language for diverse audiences with limited literacy

Advance Readability Assessment and Materials Simplification: Meet Your Health Literacy Guidelines Once and for All™

Purpose: To develop skills to assess and then use plain language techniques to simplify materials. This training provides hands-on exercises with customized client materials using the Health Literacy Advisor tool, the nation's first interactive health literacy software.

Systems Change for Better Communication™

Purpose: To provide training for administrators, policy makers and program directors who want to implement health literacy programs and initiatives. It includes user-friendly, action-oriented materials, samples and resources that can be easily referenced, obtained, reproduced, and shared with colleagues. This workshop includes:

• A basic overview of key health literacy concepts
• Techniques for improving health literacy through communication, knowledge and skills building, implementation of the Health Literacy Advisor™, and advocacy
• Examples of health literacy programs, standards, guidelines and best practices
• Suggested plan of action for addressing health literacy in your organization

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In late 2007, Health Literacy Innovations conducted the first national survey on Medicaid guidelines for health literacy. The results of the survey, including state reading level requirements for printed material, is available as a FREE download: HLI_Medicaid_Survey.pdf