 At Audiology Associates at Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. The Lee Avenue Public Library in Pikeville held an adult literacy class on Wednesday, July 20, where those struggling with reading and writing can learn basic literacy skills, as well as practice reading and writing. The way that I approach it is I give them assessment in the beginning and once I can gauge where their reading level is at, we just take it one step at a time from there and that's the biggest part of it. It's just coming to class and building the skills that help us improve our literacy. Right now I have two students, two star students that are loyal to my class. They show up nearly every week and I get to see them benefit from class. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, about 79% of adults have medium to high literacy skills. The literacy rate in Kentucky is roughly 88% as of 2022. About 144 million people in our country read below a sixth grade reading level. The first student I had, his name is Tab, he just asked me after a computer class one day, he asked me if we had anything in the way of helping adults learn how to read. And I told him that I wasn't sure what was offered and I looked around and saw that there wasn't much of anything other than just pointing to resources. And so I told him that I could sit an hour of my time before the computer class just for adult literacy so that we can build on that stuff. The adult literacy class is held every Wednesday at 9am at the Lee Avenue Public Library in Pikeville. Any adult who would like to improve upon their literacy skills is welcome to attend. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Dean.