A gap of even six months after initial training will, according to some studies, return the learner to the status of a 'functional illiterate'.

Many are functional illiterates with poor judgment and even poorer values.

Estimates of the number of functional illiterates ID the United States range from 18 million to 64 million.

The basic skills of functional illiterates do not reach beyond the fourth grade.

You called some of them functional illiterates.

I witnessed men growing from functional illiterates to college-degree recipients.

Because of the N.C.A.A.'s concern that functional illiterates were attending colleges and universities in order to play football and basketball, Oliver said.

Huge numbers of Americans are functional illiterates.

There are forty-four million Americans who cannot read and write above a fourth-grade level--in other words, who are functional illiterates.

Forty-five seconds were devoted to a new study on the reasons high schools gave diplomas to functional illiterates.