These reported literacy rates are very similar to self-reported literacy in pregnant women in Eastern Burma [ 33].
Fifty-six per cent and 29% reported literacy in Kiswahili and English, respectively.
In this manuscript we report literacy rates in pregnant women and explore the role of literacy in relation to poor pregnancy outcome on the Thai-Burmese border.
Only 37.0% of all interviewees had completed primary school, but almost half (49.6%) reported literacy in English and 70.8% in Kiswahili.
The study of Borg et al. (45) in Bangladesh reported that users of hearing aids were more likely to report literacy, higher education and higher participation in school than non-users with hearing impairments.
Though most participants interviewed reported literacy with the local language, those who were illiterate also expressed interest in receiving SMS messages, stating they could identify a literate person to communicate the messages.
Questions solicited information on the presence or absence of diarrhoea in the 30 days prior to the interview, the number of people residing in the home and demographic characteristics (age, source(s) of income, gender, community name, municipality, self reported literacy of mothers and fathers of the household and, if literate, their highest education level completed).
This deficit was associated with poor home literacy experiences, with the group of parents with children matched in reading age, in comparison with the group of parents with children with surface dyslexia, reporting more literacy home experiences.
For example, in the recent Lao PDR National Literacy Survey, the reported adult literacy rate for the population aged 15 and above was found to be 68.7 per cent, with 77 per cent for males and 60.9 per cent for females.
Sleeter's (2011) synthesis reported that literacy approaches that challenge the operation of coercive relations of power in the wider society produce positive outcomes for students from socially marginalised communities.
