Learning

Learners experiencing disabilities and their families often have had to fight to be educated in regular education settings alongside their typical peers. Now the world is beginning to agree with them that inclusive education is the most effective and socially just education for all.  
By Gary Bunch
December 2009

Canadians with disabilities experience a number of different barriers to labour force participation, including activity limitations that preclude employment and discrimination in hiring practices.  
By Canadian Council on Learning
August 2009

The National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) and BMO Capital Markets are pleased to announce the 10 outstanding winners of the 2009 NEADS Equity Through Education Student Awards Program. Equity Through Education®, is a charitable initiative launched by BMO Capital Markets in 2005 to help people realize their educational ambitions by giving them the means to pursue those goals.  
July 2009

Thank you to all those who visited our booth at this year's People In Motion Show and the booths of our Founders' Table members, Bank of Montreal (BMO) and Rogers Communication.  
June 2009

Inclusive education for learners experiencing disabilities is happening all over the world. The most exciting inclusion education program I have seen is in India.  
By Gary Bunch
May 2009

Quarterly Updates of Announcements, News, Programs and Technology from across the Canadian disability community.  
May 2009

All of us have been teased at some point in our lives, especially while growing up. Sometimes it’s light-hearted joking between friends or family members. But other times, teasing escalates into something much more sinister and damaging: bullying. According to the website Bullying.org, in Canada, bullying happens every seven minutes on the playground.  
By Melissa Martz
February 2009

Quarterly Updates of Announcements, News, Programs and Technology from across the Canadian disability community.   
December 2008

Quarterly Updates of Announcements, News, Programs and Technology from across the Canadian disability community.  
June 2008

Music is the universal language that connects us all, regardless of age, race or ability. All of us have benefited from music as a learning tool. Think of a song that you learned as a child. What made it stick? Chances are, it had repetitive words and a simple, recurring melody. Perhaps it involved hand gestures or miming that helped reinforce the lyrics. Songs can help us remember and use language – it’s no wonder the alphabet has been set to music!  
By Melissa Martz
March 2008

Research shows that higher education and lifelong learning contribute significantly to the lifestyle that one enjoys. Canadians understand the power of education to transform people's lives by increasing their chances of gaining satisfying employment that provides financial independence. From this we can safely conclude that students with disabilities who have accessed post-secondary education will also improve the quality of their lives.  
By Christine Staddon and Rabia Khedr
March 2008

When Jim Darley, a computer consultant in Mississauga, Ontario, feels the going getting tough, he has a simple solution: he reaches across his desk and hits the big red “easy” button.The five-dollar item, purchased at an office supply store, utters a pre-recorded voice stating, “That was easy!” and, for a time, the world feels a little less heavy. That’s because the soft-spoken Darley, 58, who was only diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) in September after decades of self-doubt and repeated failures, is still adjusting to his new label. The button serves as a kind of self-regulating “check-in” tool that helps keep him focused.   
By Carter Hammett
December 2007

On my last day as a client at a treatment centre, I was given a sheet of paper with various important phone numbers to call in case I had any problems in the “real world.” That was it. I was on my own at 21.   
By Scott Bremner
September 2007

Julie Dollar radiates enthusiasm as she talks about her life and future goals. Presently enrolled in the Child and Youth Worker program at Fanshawe College in London, Ont., Julie plans to work with deaf children when she graduates.  
By Avril Rinn
September 2007

Have you ever responded to a phone call and been asked to participate in a survey and wondered, after the fact, what happens to the information collected? Sometimes it seems like so much is asked that no one could possibly analyze it all. Or maybe the questions seem so irrelevant that you aren't sure how the information collected would be useful. We are a group of researchers who are analyzing the data collected from these types of surveys as part of a broad-based series of studies-studies that are mapping literacy and disability data in Canada.   
By Christy Spielman, Ezra Zubrow, Marcia Rioux, Tamara Daly, Miha Dinca-Panaitescu and Gail Kunkel
November 2006

  
By Tamara Daly, Miha Dinca-Panaitescu, Gail Kunkel, Marcia Rioux, Christy Spielman and Ezra Zubrow
August 2006

  
By Avril Rinn
February 2006

  
By Anna Quon
August 2005

  
By Sandra L. Howe
May 2005

  
May 2005