How will you find your Learners?
You may already have identified your learners, however most potential learners will go to great lengths to hide their reading problems. Your local church, youth club, job centre, Sure Start or other parent group will be able to suggest adult learners. Confidentiality is vital in this sensitive area. However, you may find that some of your learners are so thrilled about learning to read that they will want to shout it from the roof tops.
If you work in a large or medium sized organisation with employees of every grade, have a look: who is there who never picks up a newspaper in the tea break? Who has "never got their glasses" when there is something to read, and asks someone to read it out for them? Who left school without any GCSE's - but who's always got a contribution to make, a joke to crack, or an unusual approach to suggest? Could they be hiding a serious reading difficulty?
