2016
DOI: 10.1007/s13187-016-1059-5
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Making Cancer Health Text on the Internet Easier to Read for Deaf People Who Use American Sign Language

Abstract: People with relatively limited English language proficiency find the Internet’s cancer and health information difficult to access and understand. The presence of unfamiliar words and complex grammar make this particularly difficult for Deaf people. Unfortunately, current technology does not support low-cost, accurate translations of online materials into American Sign Language. However, current technology is relatively more advanced in allowing text simplification, while retaining content. This research team d… Show more

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“…Currently, there are widespread efforts to make eHealth platforms accessible for Deaf individuals. To help increase access to genetic information, eHealth platforms should be accessible in ASL and use text that is below a sixth‐grade reading level while still retaining the original content of the health information (Boudreault et al, ; Kushalnagar et al, ). These modifications have been shown to significantly improve Deaf individuals’ understanding of health information.…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…Currently, there are widespread efforts to make eHealth platforms accessible for Deaf individuals. To help increase access to genetic information, eHealth platforms should be accessible in ASL and use text that is below a sixth‐grade reading level while still retaining the original content of the health information (Boudreault et al, ; Kushalnagar et al, ). These modifications have been shown to significantly improve Deaf individuals’ understanding of health information.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is important to ensure that eHealth platforms are accessible for Deaf consumers. Two recent studies concluded that eHealth platforms should use English vocabulary and syntax that is written below a sixth‐grade reading level, as well as ASL, while still retaining the complete content of the originally conveyed cancer health information (Boudreault et al, ; Kushalnagar et al, ). These modifications have been shown to make a significant improvement in a Deaf individual's understanding of health information.…”
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“…Algorithms trained on these datasets perform well on general language simplification, but have been shown to perform poorly on medical text simplification [2,16]. For instance, an (statistical) algorithm trained on the PWKP dataset for simplifying cancer and other health text produced output that was "imperfect and required a second manual step to be consistent and accurate" [16].…”
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“…Readability is a popular and informative analysis because it is simple, objective, and has been shown to correlate to reading comprehension tasks (Fry, 1968). Useful applications include text simplification (Kushalnagar et al, 2016) and evaluating the suitability of a certain application of materials (Lau & King, 2006). However, because readability formulae rely solely on the structural properties of the text, calculations fail to reflect several factors that could affect the reader's comprehension (Friedman & Hoffman-Goetz, 2006).…”
Section: Readability Difficulty Across Translation Versionsmentioning
confidence: 99%