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A Profile Of Persons With Disabilities In Canada
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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)
Book Synopsis Disability in Canada by : Canada. Développement des ressources humaines Canada
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.
Book Synopsis A Profile of Persons with Disabilities in Canada by : Adele Furrie
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).
Book Synopsis World Report on Disability by : World Health Organization
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.
Book Synopsis About Canada: Disability Rights by : Deborah Stienstra
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.
Book Synopsis About Canada: Disability Rights by : Deborah Stienstra
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.
Book Synopsis Creating a Culture of Accessibility in the Sciences by : Mahadeo A. Sukhai
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
Book Synopsis Disabled Persons in Canada by : Canada. Health and Welfare Canada
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:
Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment by : John Ravenscroft
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.
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.
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.
Book Synopsis Employment Equity in Canada by : Carol Agocs
Download or read book Employment Equity in Canada written by Carol Agocs and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1980s, the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment and the federal Employment Equity Act made Canada a policy leader in addressing systemic discrimination in the workplace. More than twenty-five years later, Employment Equity in Canada assembles a distinguished group of experts to examine the state of employment equity in Canada today. Examining the evidence of nearly thirty years, the contributors – both scholars and practitioners of employment policy – evaluate the history and influence of the Abella Report, the impact of Canada’s employment equity legislation on equality in the workplace, and the future of substantive equality in an environment where the Canadian government is increasingly hostile to intervention in the workplace. They compare Canada’s legal and policy choices to those of the United States and to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and examine ways in which the concept of employment equity might be expanded to embrace other vulnerable communities. Their observations will be essential reading for those seeking to understand the past, present, and future of Canadian employment and equity policy.
Book Synopsis Absent Citizens by : Michael J. Prince
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.
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.
Book Synopsis Brunner & Suddarth's Canadian Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing by : Mohamed El Hussein
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.
Book Synopsis Our Life Our Way by : William L. Rush
Download or read book Our Life Our Way written by William L. Rush and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Life Our Way, A Memoir of Active Faith, Profound Love, and Courageous Disability Rights explores an extraordinary love story grown out of engagement with both disability rights advocacy and Christian faith communities. This important memoir contains thoughtful, often-entertaining, and sometimes heart-wrenching anecdotes of a couple's journey to create their profoundly intimate relationship and Christian marriage, in a world not yet ready for them. William Rush and Christine Robinson's timely meeting, when the United States was close to granting civil rights to all Americans with disabilities, sets the stages for their intensely human and difficult journey of breaking down many societal and systemic barriers to full participation in the larger society. How will the couple deal with the local KKK grand dragon who is threatening William, an outspoken person with a significant disability? How will they respond to posturing state politicians using persons with disabilities as bargaining chips with potentially dire consequences? How will they react to well-meaning but not always well-informed government officials pushing quick fixes? Against such opposition, can they create their own life, supported by their local disability rights and Christian faith communities? Girded by a local Christian congregation's willingness to engage with this nontraditional couple, their faith is tested and grows stronger through much adversity. Faith-filled acts of mercy and grace and active and meaningful participation provide restoration on their arduous journey. Deepening their relationship with God results in a desire for a Christian marriage. Through a series of vignettes, several deeply human themes are explored: developing enduring relationships, standing up for one's rights and advocating for one's needs, and what it means to growing deeply in love with a faithful God while tribulations abound. Through sheer grit, they model for each of us how to create our own lives, our own way.
Book Synopsis The Routledge History of Disability by : Roy Hanes
Download or read book The Routledge History of Disability written by Roy Hanes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Disability explores the shifting attitudes towards and representations of disabled people from the age of antiquity to the twenty-first century. Taking an international view of the subject, this wide-ranging collection shows that the history of disability cuts across racial, ethnic, religious, cultural, gender and class divides, highlighting the commonalities and differences between the experiences of disabled persons in global historical context. The book is arranged in four parts, covering histories of disabilities across various time periods and cultures, histories of national disability policies, programs and services, histories of education and training and the ways in which disabled people have been seen and treated in the last few decades. Within this, the twenty-eight chapters discuss topics such as developments in disability issues during the late Ottoman period, the history of disability in Belgian Congo in the early twentieth century, blind asylums in nineteenth-century Scotland and the systematic killing of disabled children in Nazi Germany. Illustrated with images and tables and providing an overview of how various countries, cultures and societies have addressed disability over time, this comprehensive volume offers a global perspective on this rapidly growing field and is a valuable resource for scholars of disability studies and histories of disabilities.
Book Synopsis About Canada: Health and Illness, 2nd ed. by : Dennis Raphael
Download or read book About Canada: Health and Illness, 2nd ed. written by Dennis Raphael and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-13T00:00:00Z with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Canadians believe that their experiences of health and illness are shaped by genetics, medical care and lifestyle choices. Governments, the media and disease associations reinforce this perception by pointing to medical research and a healthy lifestyle as the keys to health. About Canada: Health and Illness tells a different story. In this new, updated edition, Dennis Raphael shows that living and working conditions, income, employment and quality of education, as well as access to food, housing and social services — the social determinants of health — are what dictate the health of Canadians. And these social determinants are shaped by the public-policy decisions of Canadian governments. Whether you stay healthy or become ill has more to do with policies, laws and regulations than genetics or lifestyle. Over the past thirty years, policymakers — operating under the influence of neoliberalism — have threatened health by allowing the growth of corporate power, which has led to growing inequality in these social determinants of health. This book is a wake-up call to Canadians. Public pressure needs to be put on elected representatives to create policies that are in the interest of the majority of Canadians, not just the wealthy.
