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Disability in Canada

Author : Canada. Développement des ressources humaines Canada
Publisher : [Gatineau, Québec] : Développement des ressources humaines Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disability in Canada written by Canada. Développement des ressources humaines Canada and published by [Gatineau, Québec] : Développement des ressources humaines Canada. This book was released on 2003 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents key findings from the Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS) for each of the following age groups: children (0-14); youths (15-24); core working-age adults (25-54); older working-age adults (55-64); seniors (65 and over). It begins with a national profile of disability rates, types and severity. It then summarizes data for each age group, highlighting the prevalence, severity and major types of disability for each group. It also presents data on some of the key issues for each age group. For example, the section on children looks at the impact of caregiving on families, while the section on core working-age adults highlights data on the labour force. Each section contains a personal story illustrating some of the issues revealed by the statistical data.

A Profile of Persons with Disabilities in Canada

Author : Adele Furrie
Publisher : Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Profile of Persons with Disabilities in Canada written by Adele Furrie and published by Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada. This book was released on 1990 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise study of the north of Canada is based on the census statistics of 1986 and includes demographic composition and change, cultural composition, education, labour force activity and income, family and household composition and housing conditions, with highlights (summary).

World Report on Disability

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789241564182
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book World Report on Disability written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Report on Disability suggests more than a billion people totally experience disability. They generally have poorer health, lower education and fewer economic opportunities and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities. This report provides the best available evidence about what works to overcome barriers to better care and services.

About Canada: Disability Rights

Author : Deborah Stienstra
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1552665682
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book About Canada: Disability Rights written by Deborah Stienstra and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-01T00:00:00Z with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a close examination of employment, education, transportation, telecommunications and health care, About Canada: Disability Rights explores the landscape of disability rights in Canada and finds that, while important advances have been made, Canadians with disabilities still experience significant barriers in obtaining their human rights. Using the stories and voices of people with disabilities, Deborah Stienstra argues that disability is not about “faulty” bodies that need to be fixed, but about the institutional, cultural and attitudinal reactions to certain kinds of bodies, and that neoliberal ideas of independence and individualism are at the heart of the continuing discrimination against “disabled” people. Stienstra contends that achieving disability rights is possible, but not through efforts to “fix” certain kinds of bodies. Rather it can be achieved through universal design, disability supports, social and economic supports and belonging — in short, through foundational social transformation of Canadian society.

About Canada: Disability Rights

Author : Deborah Stienstra
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1773634240
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book About Canada: Disability Rights written by Deborah Stienstra and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-26T00:00:00Z with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including people with disabilities fully into Canadian society, with the rights enjoyed by non-disabled people, requires a fundamental social transformation, not simply “fixing” some bodies. It requires deep changes in the attitudes, cultural images and policies that make people with disabilities invisible, set them aside, undermine or reject their contributions and value, and justifies their neglect, abuse and death. This shift involves the simple recognition and honouring of the dignity, autonomy and rights of all people, including those who experience disabilities. In the second edition of About Canada: Disability Rights, Deborah Stienstra explores the historical and current experiences of people with disabilities in Canada, as well as the policy and advocacy responses to these experiences. Stienstra demonstrates that disability rights enable people with disabilities to make decisions about their lives and future, claim rights on their own behalf, and participate actively in all areas of Canadian society. Disability rights can and does increase access to and inclusion in critical areas like education, employment, transportation, telecommunications and health care. Additionally, Stienstra identifies new approaches and practices, such as universal design, disability supports and income supports, that can transform Canadian society to be more inclusive and accommodating for everyone.

Disabled Persons in Canada

Author : Canada. Health and Welfare Canada
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Disabled Persons in Canada written by Canada. Health and Welfare Canada and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment

Author : John Ravenscroft
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351618792
Total Pages : 885 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment written by John Ravenscroft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 885 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment examines current debates as well as cross-examining traditionally held beliefs around visual impairment. It provides a bridge between medical practice and social and cultural research drawing on authentic investigations. It is the intention of this Handbook to provide an opportunity to engage with academic researchers who wish to ensure a coherent and rigorous approach to research construction and reflection on visual impairment that is in collaboration with, but sometimes is beyond, the medical realm. This Handbook is divided into ten thematic areas in order to represent the wide range of debates and concepts within visual impairment. The ten themes include: cerebral visual impairment; education; sport and physical exercise; assistive technology; understanding the cultural aesthetics; socio-emotional and sexual aspects of visual impairment; orientation, mobility, habitation, and rehabilitation; recent advances in "eye" research and sensory substitution devices; ageing and adulthood. The 27 chapters that explore the social and cultural aspects of visual impairment can be taken and used in a variety of different ways in order to promote research and generate debate among practitioners and scholars who wish to use this resource to inform their practice in supporting and developing positive outcomes for all.

Creating a Culture of Accessibility in the Sciences

Author : Mahadeo A. Sukhai
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128040866
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Creating a Culture of Accessibility in the Sciences written by Mahadeo A. Sukhai and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating a Culture of Accessibility in the Sciences provides insights and advice on integrating students with disabilities into the STEM fields. Each chapter features research and best practices that are interwoven with experiential narratives. The book is reflective of the diversity of STEM disciplines (life and physical sciences, engineering, and mathematics), and is also reflective of cross-disability perspectives (physical, sensory, learning, mental health, chronic medical and developmental disabilities). It is a useful resource for STEM faculty and university administrators working with students with disabilities, as well as STEM industry professionals interested in accommodating employees with disabilities. - Offers a global perspective on making research or work spaces accessible for students with disabilities in the STEM fields - Discusses best practices on accommodating and supporting students and demonstrates how these practices can be translated across disciplines - Enhances faculty knowledge of inclusive teaching practices, adaptive equipment, accessibility features, and accommodations in science laboratories, which would enable the safe participation of students with disabilities - Provides advice for students with disabilities on disclosure and mentoring

Being Heumann

Author : Judith Heumann
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080701950X
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Being Heumann written by Judith Heumann and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year for Nonfiction "...an essential and engaging look at recent disability history."— Buzzfeed One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann’s lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society. Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy’s struggle for equality began early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a “fire hazard” to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher’s license because of her paralysis, Judy’s actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people. As a young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Francisco as a leader of the Section 504 Sit-In, the longest takeover of a governmental building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy successfully pressured the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled peoples’ rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann’s memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.

Absent Citizens

Author : Michael J. Prince
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absent Citizens written by Michael J. Prince and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: of the Canadian population." --Book Jacket.

Untold Stories

Author : Nancy Hansen
Publisher : Canadian Scholars
ISBN 13 : 177338046X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book Untold Stories written by Nancy Hansen and published by Canadian Scholars. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited reader explores the history of Canadian people with disabilities from Confederation to current day. This edited collection focuses on Canadians with mental, physical, and cognitive disabilities, and discusses their lives, work, and influence on public policy. Organized by time period, the 23 chapters in this collection are authored by a diverse group of scholars who discuss the untold histories of Canadians with disabilities―Canadians who influenced science and technology, law, education, healthcare, and social justice. Selected chapters discuss disabilities among Indigenous women; the importance of community inclusion; the ubiquity of stairs in the Montreal metro; and the ethics of disability research. This volume is a terrific resource for students and anyone interested in disability studies, history, sociology, social work, geography, and education. Untold Stories: A Canadian Disability History Reader offers an exceptional presentation of influential people with various disabilities who brought about social change and helped to make Canada more accessible.

Rick Hansen

Author : Rick Hansen
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1553658728
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book Rick Hansen written by Rick Hansen and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1973, Rick Hansen was a carefree teenager hitchhiking home from a fishing trip, a kid who lived and breathed sports. But after the truck he was riding in went out of control and crashed, Hansen was left a paraplegic. For some people that could have been the end. For Rick Hansen it was the beginning of a story that is at once sad and funny, heartbreaking and inspirational. Hansen takes you from the first painful days and frightening nights in hospital, through the gritty process of rehabilitation, to his return to competition as a world champion of wheelchair sports. It is the story of the Man in Motion tour—Rick Hansen’s incredible 24,901.55-mile wheelchair journey through 34 countries around the world. It is also the love story of Hansen and his wife, Amanda, a physiotherapist whom Hansen calls his “lifeline.” And it is a success story—Rick Hansen has raised millions of dollars for spinal cord research, rehabilitation and wheelchair sports as well as raised awareness about the disabled.

No Pity

Author : Joseph P. Shapiro
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307798321
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book No Pity written by Joseph P. Shapiro and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights.”—The Washington Post “The primer for a revolution.”—The Chicago Tribune “Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It looks at the rise of what is called the disability rights movement—the new thinking by disabled people that there is no pity or tragedy in disability and that it is society’s myths, fears, and stereotypes that most make being disabled difficult.”—from the Introduction

The Power of Disability

Author : Al Etmanski
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1523087587
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Disability written by Al Etmanski and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Impact uses this compilation of inspiring stories of disabled people to convey ten important life lessons to help anyone. This book reveals that people with disabilities are the invisible force that has shaped history. They have been instrumental in the growth of freedom and birth of democracy. They have produced heavenly music and exquisite works of art. They have unveiled the scientific secrets of the universe. They are among our most popular comedians, poets, and storytellers. And at 1.2 billion, they are also the largest minority group in the world. Al Etmanski offers ten lessons we can all learn from people with disabilities, illustrated with short, funny, inspiring, and thought-provoking stories of one hundred individuals from twenty countries. Some are familiar, like Michael J. Fox, Greta Thunberg, Stephen Hawking, Helen Keller, Stevie Wonder, and Temple Grandin. Others deserve to be, like Evelyn Glennie, a virtuoso percussionist who is deaf—her mission is to teach the world to listen to improve communication and social cohesion. Or Aaron Philip, who has revolutionized the runway as the first disabled, trans woman of color to become a professional model. The time has come to recognize people with disabilities for who they really are: authoritative sources on creativity, love, sexuality, resistance, dealing with adversity, and living a good life. “This book reminds us of what we have in common: the power to create a good life for ourselves and for others, no matter what the world has in store for us.” —Michael J. Fox “Hopefully the universal lessons in this book will not only empower all of us to trampoline to our highest potential but also move the global disability rights movement to achieve the success it fully deserves—so we can all live in a more just and equitable world.” —Susan Sygall, disability activist and MacArthur fellow “Etmanski engages every reader, whether new to the world of disability or an old hand, with thoughtful insights on the value of difference. This book made me laugh, made me cry, made me proud.” —Yazmine Laroche, former chair, Muscular Dystrophy Canada

Working towards Equity

Author : Dustin Galer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487521308
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Working towards Equity written by Dustin Galer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Working towards Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century. Using a critical analysis of disability in archival records, personal collections, government publications and a series of interviews, Galer demonstrates how demands for greater access among disabled people for paid employment stimulated the development of a new discourse of disability in Canada. Family advocates helped people living in institutions move out into the community as rehabilitation professionals played an increasingly critical role in the lives of working-age adults with disabilities. Meanwhile, civil rights activists crafted a new consumer-led vision of social and economic integration. Employment was, and remains, a central component in disabled peoples' efforts to become productive, autonomous and financially secure members of Canadian society. Working towards Equity offers new in-depth analysis on rights activism as it relates to employment, sheltered workshops, deinstitutionalization and labour markets in the contemporary context in Canada.

Brunner & Suddarth's Canadian Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing

Author : Mohamed El Hussein
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 13 : 1975108043
Total Pages : 6623 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Brunner & Suddarth's Canadian Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing written by Mohamed El Hussein and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 6623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brunner and Suddarth’s Canadian Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing is a student-friendly text with an easy-to-read and comprehend Nursing Care Plan focus and a distinct Canadian focus.

Defining Disability

Author : Canada
Publisher : Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Defining Disability written by Canada and published by Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations. This book was released on 2003 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this paper is to provide essential knowledge to assist the Government of Canada in improving the understanding of its key disability programs, and to help clarify the differences between definitions, objectives, & eligibility criteria as they relate to those initiatives. Part 1 discusses the evolution of key disability conceptual models & classification systems that have evolved over several decades, and the main disability data sources based on these models & systems. Part 2, the most detailed section, provides an inventory of key laws, programs, & tax measures that target persons with disabilities in four areas: antidiscrimination legislation; activities of daily living & assistance in the home; income; and employment & learning. Part 3 summarizes the key issues relating to defining disability across government including: the complexity of disability definitions; the confusion between disability definitions, program objectives, and their eligibility criteria; and the need for improved communication & awareness. The final part highlights key government actions and next steps to address the major issues. Appendices include a review of disability definitions in the provinces and in other international jurisdictions.