by Shelley DeCoste The road to employment for people with diverse abilities is very bumpy. In some cases the road is very short, sometimes the road has a very long detour and sometimes it simply ends abruptly. Finding the right supports for employment can go a long way to smoothing out this employment road. […]
The Kamloops Self-Advocate is a newsletter for people with diverse abilities published by Krystian Shaw. The September 2014 edition of The Kamloops Self-Advocate is all about self-advocacy, the new Kamloops Self Advocate website, and the 1st anniversary of the newsletter. Click here to read the newsletter: KSA Newsletter – September 2014 If you would like […]
by David Johnston People First is an organization that was formed because some people in our communities felt they were not considered as people first. They felt that they were talked about, talked to, thought about, and treated according the disabilities that others labeled them with. This fall (after the teacher’s strike) members of BC People First […]
Jo-Anne Gauthier is a self-advocate that lives in Cranbrook. She is on the BC Self Advocacy Foundation Board of Directors and the board of People First in Cranbrook. Hello, my name is Jo-Anne. I am a wife and a mother of 2 from Cranbrook BC. I would like to tell you my story about being a […]
Inclusion BC has created an advocacy guide for families to help navigate through the BC Education Labour Dispute. The on-going labour dispute teachers’ strike has affected many families in BC, none harder than families who have a child with special needs. If you are one of those families and these school closures have affected you, staying informed and keeping […]
By Alex Lytwyn, for CBC News Posted: Sep 09, 2014 5:00 AM CTLast Updated: Sep 09, 2014 5:00 AM CT Alex Lytwyn, 28, lives with cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, but he has not felt limited by his disability. He graduated from Assiniboine Community College in Brandon, Man., and has written two books in the […]
by Jerry Laidlaw This summer I rode my adult trike on a bike tour to raise money for the Alliance Church of Canada and the projects they support. I trained all year to ride as far as I could, by riding the bike at the gym and my bike that has a electric assist. […]
Monday, September 8, 2014 For many developmentally disabled adults in Ontario, home is a placed shared with very elderly strangers. Paige Cunliffe is 21-years-old living in a long-term care nursing home in Ontario Twelve thousand disabled people are waiting for a place in group homes in Ontario alone. Increasingly, young people in their 20s find […]
Woman with intellectual disabilities charged with destruction of property CBC News Posted: Sep 05, 2014 4:48 PM ATLast Updated: Sep 05, 2014 6:05 PM AT Nichele Benn, right, and her mother Brenda Hardiman wait at provincial court in Dartmouth in January. Hardiman says her daughter has cerebral palsy, epilepsy and an organic brain disorder that […]
Former Public Safety Canada official calls farmer who killed disabled daughter ‘genuinely kind and caring’ By Jason Proctor, CBC News Posted: Sep 02, 2014 5:00 PM PTLast Updated: Sep 04, 2014 7:41 AM PT One of the authors of Canada’s parole laws says Robert Latimer, the Saskatchewan farmer convicted of killing his severely disabled daughter, should be […]
