Advocates – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

August 23, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.

TORONTO — Advocacy groups in Ontario say students with disabilities will face additional obstacles returning to class following the pandemic, leaving parents unsure if their children will be fully and safely included in school reopening plans. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/students-with-disabilities-face-more-obstacles-returning-to-class-advocates/ Related

An Interim Victory for Disability Advocates – Toronto City Council Directs City Staff to Investigate Dangers to People with Disabilities If Electric Scooters are Allowed – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

July 29, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.

Yesterday disability advocates won an important interim victory in Toronto, Canada’s largest city, in the campaign to protect the public, including people with disabilities, from the proven dangers to public safety and disability accessibility that are posed by electric scooters (e-scooters). Read more athttps://aoda.ca/an-interim-victory-for-disability-advocates-toronto-city-council-directs-city-staff-to-investigate-dangers-to-people-with-disabilities-if-electric-scooters-are-allowed/ Related

Advocates – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

June 26, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, International, Mobility

New rules aimed at making travel within Canada safer and more accessible for people with disabilities mark a welcome step forward but don’t yet go far enough to removing long-standing barriers, advocates said Thursday as the new regulations officially came into effect. Read more athttp://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/new-transport-rules-for-disabled-travellers-a-step-forward-but-not-enough-advocates/ Related

Advocates – Accessibility News International

June 26, 2020 / by BBG Security / Transportation

Michelle McQuigge / The Canadian PressJune 25, 2020 New rules aimed at making travel within Canada safer and more accessible for people with disabilities mark a welcome step forward but don’t yet go far enough to removing long-standing barriers, advocates said Thursday as the new regulations officially came into effect. The reforms drafted by the […]

Accessibility advocates – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

April 6, 2020 / by BBG Security / aoda., Deaf

Sign language interpreters are being lauded for communicating critical information from the provincial and federal governments about COVID-19, but a pair of accessibility advocates say their presence at media briefings should be normalized. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/sign-language-interpreters-at-media-briefs-should-be-normal-accessibility-advocates/ Related

‘Many people still don’t have services’: Disability rights advocates ask Quebec to step in – Montreal

December 3, 2018 / by BBG Security / Adults, Autisme Montréal, Canada, CAQ, Children, Coalition Avenir Quebec, Disabilities, Disability rights, Disability Rights Activists, Francois Legault, Quebec disability rights, Quebec social services, Services

[ad_1] Montreal disability-rights advocates are calling on the new provincial government to provide more services and help for adults and children. “Unfortunately, we have to protest again and ask the government very high up to help people with disabilities,” said Electra Dalamagas with Autisme Montréal. READ MORE: Disability rights advocates occupy Quebec ombudsman’s office A few […]

Advocates say disturbing video of N.S. school bullying shows people with disabilities are devalued

November 15, 2018 / by BBG Security / Brett Corbett, Bullying, Bullying Canada, Canada, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Victoria Regional Centre for Education, Cerebral Palsy, Council of Canadians with Disabilities, Features, glace bay, Health, Nova Scotia, Rob Benn-Frenette

[ad_1] Advocates say a disturbing video showing a Cape Breton teen’s classmate walking over him in a stream demonstrates how the lives of people with disabilities are often devalued. Brett Corbett, who has cerebral palsy, told his mother Terri McEachern that he has forgiven the bullies who apologized to him, but he still feels unsafe […]

Disability rights advocates occupy Quebec ombudsman’s office, demand meeting with health minister – Montreal

October 31, 2018 / by BBG Security / Canada, Danielle McCann, Disability rights, Health, Mouvement PHAS, Quebec health care, Quebec social services, Sam Kuhn

[ad_1] A group of about a dozen disability rights advocates spent Wednesday morning standing their ground and demanding help from the Quebec government. They gathered at Phillips Square in downtown Montreal to protest what they call a crisis in the social services sector. A smaller group of advocates, many in wheelchairs, made their way into […]

Advocates say more funding needed for diagnosis and treatment of dyslexia in B.C. – BC

October 15, 2018 / by BBG Security / Dyslexia, Dyslexia BC, Dyslexia BC schools, Dyslexia in BC, News

[ad_1] Remember getting a class assignment back with red correction marks on it? Now imagine if your paper was covered in red ink, and it was because you were being forced to understand a language you didn’t get. Now imagine it’s your native language, which you struggle to read or write. That’s what people with […]

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