* It would be wrong to assume that adult illiterates are mostly people with disabilities!! In Latin America and the Caribbean, for example, illiteracy remains concentrated in indigenous groups and the elderly. Indigenous groups are not disabled, just abandoned, neglected for centuries.

* In short literacy campaigns or programmes it is in fact difficult to prepare autonomous, proficient readers and writers (just as it is difficult to expect autonomous readers and writers after four years of schooling, in the case of children). Literacy is not an easy and short term endeavour. It requires longer education interventions and, most important, exposure to reading and writing environments, experiences and materials.

I have worked on child and adult literacy issues for over 30 years, organized a national literacy campaign and participated in several literacy programmes in many parts of the world. Over the past 15 years I have been working on Lifelong Learning, viewing child and adult learning as a continuum. In my blog OTRAEDUCACION http://otra-educacion.blogspot.com/ you may find several related texts, most of them in Spanish, some in both Spanish and English.

Regards, Rosa Maria Torres