Use online health literacy resources:

• Health Literacy Online https://health.gov/healthliteracyonline/
• CDC Health Literacy Resources https://www.cdc.gov/healthliteracy/learn/resources.html
• Usability.gov https://www.usability.gov/
• CDC Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication https://www.cdc.gov/healthcommunication/Health_Equity.html

Use a health literacy or plain language thesaurus: 

• CDC’s Everyday Words for Public Health Communication https://www.cdc.gov/other/pdf/everydaywordsforpublichealthcommunication.pdf
• Health Research for Action’s Plain Language Word List https://multco.us/file/46697/download