The project was highly successful, in that it increased the quality of life for the vast majority of the project participants with disabilities—56 out of the 59 participants. [...] To help everyone understand the process and the idea of PAR, the research team drafted a second background paper on PAR that was circulated to all the Literacy Coordinators in the five pilot site locations, prior to the Think Tank. [...] There were a number of “growing pains” in the first seven months of the project, as terminology and the project were defined between the Investigator and the Literacy Coordinators at the five sites. [...] The Co-investigators also traveled to each of the five sites twice during the project to meet the participants and to observe how the project and the relationship with the literacy partner functioned in each location. [...] New Ways of Learning The participants discovered new ways of learning, along with the literacy partners and the staff of the IL Centres involved in the project.
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