Articles

• It Just Doesn’t Make The Grade by H�l�na Katz
  Excerpt: This article looks at post-secondary education in Quebec and the effect it has on students with learning disabilities. (Helena Katz is a freelance writer and public relations consultant with Katz Communications in...
  
  
• Lireracy Options by Juliette Christiansen
  Excerpt: The Literacy Options pre-vocational training program, designed to assist adults with severe physical disabilities, has been in existence since 1991. The delivery of this service is co-sponsored by Ontario March of...
  
  
• Literacy For Independent Living by Susan Forster
  Excerpt: In May, 2003, CAILC launched Literacy for Independent Living (LIL), a new section on the CAILC website. LIL offers accessible online literacy resources for facilitators working with adult learners with disabilities. It...
  
  
• Mad People’s History by Geoffery Reaume
  Excerpt: �If the publication of my case is dangerous, so is likewise silence.� � William Belcher, 1796 When these words were written over two hundred years ago, William Belcher had spent 17 years confined in a British...
  
  
• Manufacturing Backlash by Eric Schryer
  Excerpt: (Chair of PUSH’s Central Regional Council and serving on a multitude of employment-related committees, Eric Schryer is the coordinator of Disabled People for Employment Equity (DPEE), a coalition of 35 consumer...
  
  
• Meeting Your Neads by Don Barrie
  Excerpt: The National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) was founded in 1986 at Carleton University by students who were members of Awareness Carleton. NEADS is a consumer organization, and encourages the...
  
  
• National Access Awareness Week
  Excerpt: On May 29, 1995, six post-secondary students with disabilities were awarded National Access Awareness Week (NAAW) Student Awards. Recipients of the awards were recognized both for their academic accomplishments and for...
  
  
• New Doors Education by Beverley Nagel
  Excerpt: In the not-too-distant future, virtually all of us will be using computers and other technology to communicate from our homes. This exciting new technology is available today to those who are not able to attend a...
  
  
• On The Map by Marcia Rioux, Ezra Zubrow, Adele Furrie, Wendy Miller & Mary Bunch
  Tune into this update on a new study showing the relationship between literacy and disability and related supports and services in Canada. In this installment, data sources and methodologies are discussed and compared.
  
  
• Opportunity To Succeed by Afroze Edwards
  Excerpt: The Ontario Human Rights Code guarantees the right to equal treatment in education, without discrimination on the ground of disability, as part of the protection for equal treatment in services. This protection applies...