Disability

A disability is a societal imposition on people who have impairments, making it more difficult for people to do certain activities or interact with the world around them. Due to cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, and/or sensory differences, disabled people are “unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society.” As a result of impairments, people with disabilities can experience disablement from birth, or may be labeled as disabled during their lifetime. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities defines disability as: long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

Covering a broad swathe of time, from colonization to the present day, Forced Migration in/to Canada examines human displacement in a variety of contexts: Indigenous dislocation and settler colonialism, Black …

child varies tremendously across time and space. Disability is another fascinating entry point into forced environment (Minville and Su, chapter 22), and disability (McNally, chapter 14). Our intent is a first and sexual orientation (Aberman, chapter 12), disability (McNally, chapter 14), racialization (Mahrouse


FRHD: Freehand Books · 1 September 2024 English

textile art, sibling relationships, good intentions gone awry, and friendships. What is intellectual disability? Ask Bruno, who is at his wits' end trying to predict what his sister, Mina, will do next. Ask

What is intellectual disability? Ask Bruno, who is at his wits’ end trying to predict what his sister


CARDUS: Centre for Cultural Renewal · 27 August 2024 English

An overview of government benefits available to adoptive families at the federal, provincial, and territorial levels

include being part of a sibling group or having a disability. Service Support Special Needs Benefits Supplementary


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 August 2024 English

Contemporary Vulnerabilities explores vulnerable moments in research committed to social change.

research processes, we have had to look to critical disability studies for a “sustained consideration of how of queer feminist, psychosocial, and critical disability stud- ies, we felt a desire to figure out where Research with Intellectually Disabled People,” Disability Studies Quarterly 40, no. 2 (2021). 7. Catherine Research Ethics, 2018). 11. Jackie L. Scully, “Disability and Vulnerability: On Bodies, Dependence, and Concept in Research on People with Intellectual Disability,” British Journal of Learning Disabilities 00


Fraser Institute · 15 August 2024 English

The federal government continues to rationalize its debt-financed spending based on international comparisons showing Canada with the lowest level of debt in the G7. Of the two broad measures of …

stringent work requirements were introduced for disability benefits, changes to how ben- efits were calculated


CIHI: Canadian Institute for Health Information · 15 August 2024 English

This chartbook uses primary health care electronic medical records to describe the characteristics and health service use of primary care clients at Ontario community health centres.

Receiving benefits from Ontario Works or the Ontario Disability Support Program • Enrolled in the Trillium Drug


DDN: Dundurn Press · 13 August 2024 English

Canada’s social safety net is fraying. Why does it feel like everything is collapsing?Canada is at a crossroad. Neoliberalism has hollowed out and sold off the social services Canadians rely …

individuals who could not work, usually because of disability. The boards were independ- ent, and they funded


CARDUS: Centre for Cultural Renewal · 7 August 2024 English

The Rise of Euthanasia in Canada. MAiD in Canada is the world’s fastest-growing assisted-dying program

persons not at end-of-life.14 Although dozens of disability-rights groups urged then Minister of Justice consider that their physical suffering, from a disability for example, is intolerable to them. In a surprise 3792. 15 Inclusion Canada, “Advocates Call for Disability-Rights Based Appeal of the Quebec Superior Court’s https://inclusioncanada.ca/2019/10/04/advocates-call-for-disability-rights-based- appeal-of-the-quebec-superior- year, after Bill C-7 included virtually every disability as a potentially qualifying condition, “vision/hearing


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 6 August 2024 English

Spotlights the work of trans youth in creating inclusive spaces within high schools Based on a year-long ethnographic study conducted in a Canadian high school, Fierce, Fabulous, and Fluid presents …

were describing their experiences of transness, disability, or being mixed race, underscore the regulatory Though I live with a chronic illness, this disability is not typically visible, and confla- tions of racialized.Introduction | 23 Scholars in critical disability studies have likewise extended theorizing on its interconnectedness with able- ism.70 The disability scholar Robert McRuer offers compulsory able- body.71 There is a long history of gender and disability as conceptually entangled, and gen- der nonconformity


CIHI: Canadian Institute for Health Information · 25 July 2024 English

​​​This document summarizes the basic concepts, underlying methodologies, strengths and limitations of the data available.

all situations of health, illness, injury and disability; they also coordinate care and support clients


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