This article describes a literacy improvement program, designed and implemented by the author. The program involves four interrelated processes: (1) sensitization; (2) diagnosis; (3) individualization; and, (4) evaluation. The author also comments on the role of the counselor in literacy programs. (HMV)

For better or for worse the higher literacy has reached that community and thousands like it across Canada. With the exception of truly remote areas opportunities for raising the level of literacy, of information, and knowledge are becoming more and more accessible. (Author)

The more worldly-wise, or the "more literate" in its broader sense, student may present counsellors with new problems because of the very worldliness of his knowledge and experience. (Author)

The new literacy becomes one of the many cultural conditions in our society about which counsellors must be knowledgeable in order to prepare young people to live in the society of the future. (Author)

That we so often fail in our grander efforts in education is a fact of our human limitations, but let us always respect the words in the child's mouth and never avoid an opportunity to help that child make those words mean what they are wanted to mean. (Author)

"Making it at school" may not necessarily mean "making it in life." The curriculum may be slow in catching up to basic new elements of higher literacy which will give to those engaged in the guidance and counselling field their greatest opportunity. (Author)