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Wednesday, 7 November, 2012
Roughly 15 percent of people in Switzerland are illiterate
Roughly 15 percent of people in Switzerland are classed as illiterate. That is about 800,000 with reading and writing difficulties. Two-thirds of these are migrants or non-native speakers. Someone who can’t read the basic instructions of how often to take medicine for example, would be in this category. Thomas Sommer, from the Institute of Research and Development at the reading centre of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Northwestern Switzerland tells WRS’s Jo Fahy that reaching out to people with these difficulties is a major hurdle:
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