Articles

• 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...
  
  
• Out Of Work... Comes An Idea by Lisa Bendall
  Excerpt: It wasn�t so long ago that when Tom Proszowski applied for a job, employers wouldn�t even consider him for the position once they discovered he had a disability. Times are changing, larger employers are now looking...
  
  
• Parents As Partners by Pat Javor
  Excerpt: As the parent of a nine-year-old child with a physical disability who is integrated in grade four, I firmly believe that the parents and the teacher form an important partnership in the child’s education. Parents...