Online Learning Is Worsening the Already-Uneven Educational Experience for Neurodiverse Students – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Students with ADHD are underrepresented in the university system, their symptoms poorly managed and their degree outcomes uncertain. This academic year may be the testing ground for the shape of higher education to come, and I worry that students with ADHD and other invisible disabilities will be placed at a particular disadvantage owing to a […]

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COVID-19 Pandemic Boosts Visibility of Sign Language, Increases Accessibility for Deaf Community – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Sign language interpreters said that they hope increased use of interpreters during major events helps increase accessibility for the deaf community. Read more athttps://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/covid-19-pandemic-boosts-visibility-of-sign-language-increases-accessibility-for-deaf-community/ Related

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CBC Program Reveals Disturbing Fact that, Far From Objective Scientific Decisions, Ontario Critical Care Triage Could Involve Doctors Guesstimating and Improvising When Deciding Which Patients Should be Refused Life-Saving Critical Medical Care They Need – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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And Other News on The Triage Issue Read more athttps://aoda.ca/cbc-program-reveals-disturbing-fact-that-far-from-objective-scientific-decisions-ontario-critical-care-triage-could-involve-doctors-guesstimating-and-improvising-when-deciding-which-patients-should/ Related

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

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Based on what disability advocates have seen so far, Canadian cities aren’t ready for the influx of people temporarily or permanently disabled from COVID-19. Long-term effects include breathing problems, mobility limitations from fatigue, and neurological and sleeping difficulties. Read more athttps://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/canada-isnt-ready-to-deal-with-influx-of-those-disabled-from-covid-19-advocates/ Related

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Accessibility News January 23,2021 Update – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/acnewsca AbleDocs is proud to support Accessibility News! With AbleDocs’ Document Accessibility Services, we are able to provide full content accessibility solutions that are unmatched by any other provider in the marketplace. We are the only organization that guarantees the compliance of every document we produce, and we back that […]

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Even More Reason to Worry About Secret Ontario Plans Regarding Rationing or Triage of Life-Saving Critical Medical Care Is Revealed in Two Newspaper Articles and a Letter Secretly Sent to Ontario Hospitals – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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We today share more media coverage on the Ford Government’s frightening plans for deciding who will be refused life-saving critical medical care they need, if the out-of-control COVID-19 pandemic forces the rationing or triage of critical care. More revelations give rise to more serious dangers facing Ontarians with disabilities and others if that eventuality arises […]

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Ontario Urged to Suspend Need for Consent Before Withdrawing Life Support When COVID Crushes Hospitals – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Canada’s Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that a major Toronto Hospital could not withdraw life-support from a minimally conscious and severely brain-damaged man without his family’s consent. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/ontario-urged-to-suspend-need-for-consent-before-withdrawing-life-support-when-covid-crushes-hospitals/ Related

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More Media Coverage of Danger that the Ford Government’s Critical Medical Care Triage Poses for Ontarians with disabilities – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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But the Government Claims Protocol Does Not Come From the Government So Does The Government Believe It Comes From Some Rogue Group Issuing Directions to Ontario’s Hospitals? Read more athttps://aoda.ca/more-media-coverage-of-danger-that-the-ford-governments-critical-medical-care-triage-poses-for-ontarians-with-disabilities/ Related

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Ontario Patients to Be Ranked for Life-Saving Care Should ICUs Become Full, Documents Show – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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The province’s triage protocol guidance states that patients should be assessed and placed in a colour-coded framework based on their risk of short-term mortality, which is defined as survival beyond 12 months after the onset of critical illness. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/ontario-patients-to-be-ranked-for-life-saving-care-should-icus-become-full-documents-show/ Related

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Teachers Fear Return to Classrooms, But Parents Say Kids Need the Support – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Toronto Star, Jan. 18, 2021Olivia Bowden While the rest of the province is hunkering down under new, stricter stay-at-home orders, Jim Rossiter is his usual place – with students in his classroom. Rossiter is a special-education teacher at Maxwell Heights Secondary School in Oshawa and, even with most schools shuttered amid surging COVID-19 numbers, he […]

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