Monthly Archives: March 2012

Accessibility News March 31,2012 Update

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In this Issue

*Enhancing Accessibility in Post-Secondary Education (PSE) Institutions: A Guide for Disability Service Providers
*Bits and Pieces of Important News on the Campaign for a Fully-Accessible Ontario
*Seeing Opportunities for the Visually Impaired
*Mental Health Help Line Expands Across Northeast
*Open Letter: Ontario Budget 2012
*Do Social Networks Make Us Sick?
*McGuinty Freezes Social Assistance Level, Scales Back Child Benefit Gain
*Ontario Disability Employment Network Press Release

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https://www.accessibilitynews.ca/accessibility-news-march-312012-update/

Enhancing Accessibility in Post-Secondary Education (PSE) Institutions: A Guide for Disability Service Providers

The association is proud to announce the availability of a new, comprehensive guide on disability service
provision and accommodations at colleges and universities in Canada. This Guide is now available on the NEADS website

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http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=2558

Bits and Pieces of Important News on the Campaign for a Fully-Accessible Ontario

Here are selections of important news and upcoming events of interest to all who support our campaign for a fully-accessible Ontario for all persons with disabilities:

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http://www.aoda.ca/?p=1755

Seeing Opportunities for the Visually Impaired

Mary Helen Sprecher

last year, I was passing by one of Baltimore’s sports fields when I came across an Easter egg hunt in progress. It took me a minute to realize it wasn’t a typical egg hunt; the eggs were beeping, and the kids running around collecting them were blind.

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http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=2556

Mental Health Help Line Expands Across Northeast

18 people to be employed at Warmline sites in Sault Ste. Marie and Timmins
CBC News Posted: Mar 27, 2012

A call centre for people with mental health problems is expanding in northeastern Ontario.

It’s not a hot line for emergency calls — it’s called a warm-line, and it’s for people who need to speak with someone about their problems.

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https://www.accessibilitynews.ca/mental-health-help-line-expands-across-northeast/

Open Letter: Ontario Budget 2012

By Alan Shaw

Dear Andrea Horwath Provincial NDP Leader,

On Tuesday March 27, 2012 the Provincial Liberal government will introduce the new Ontario 2012/2013 fiscal budget which as Premier, Dalton McGuinty has stated represents his most difficult budget ever, however it appears
many others are going to feel the pain, especially the most vulnerable members of Ontario, of which I’m one.

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https://www.accessibilitynews.ca/open-letter-ontario-budget-2012/

Do Social Networks Make Us Sick?

Is there such as thing as Facebook Addiction Disorder? Mental health experts in Ottawa and around the world are now probing the dark side of social media to see what effect über-connectedness has on everything from eating to suicide.

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http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=2553

McGuinty Freezes Social Assistance Level, Scales Back Child Benefit Gain

By Lee Greenberg, The Ottawa Citizen

National PostTORONTO — The provincial government is scaling back a planned hike in child benefits and freezing social assistance, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Sunday, as Ontario grapples with a solution to its $16-billion deficit.

Rather than rising by $200 per year in July 2013, the child benefit will rise by $100. It will increase by the same amount one year later.

Provincial social assistance programs — which include Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program — will be frozen.

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https://www.accessibilitynews.ca/mcguinty-freezes-social-assistance-level-scales-back-child-benefit-gain/

Ontario Disability Employment Network Press Release

Yes, its possible to save taxpayers millions while gettingmore people who have a disability into the workforce

Ontario spends $3.3 billion a year on disability income support, a figure that’s growing at a rate of 5% a year. Yet, its frustratingly difficult for many people who have a disability to find ameaningful place in the economy because of systemic roadblocks.

The Network recently released a report to Ontario’s Social Assistance Review Commission that includes 37 recommendations aimed at helping more people who have a disability find work,while also saving taxpayers millions.

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https://www.accessibilitynews.ca/ontario-disability-employment-network-press-release/

Accessibility News March 24,2012 Update

Inclusive Media and Design Inc is a proud supporter of Accessibility News.

Inclusive is ready to caption and video describe all your video for web, DVD, and computer desktop. They can also assist you in understanding and implementing Ontario’s AODA Integrated Standards’ media requirements.

Visit www.inclusivemedia.ca to find out more.

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In this Issue

*Austerity Mania Threatens Ontario’s Poor and Disabled
*LCO Releases Draft Framework for the Law as it Affects Persons with Disabilities
*Feds Look To Boost Web Accessibility
*“Nice City to Visit…Just Don’t Expect to Take a Shower!” – PUSH Northwest
*Green Shield Canada Donates $20,000 to Adult Transition Program for Youth with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
*TD Bank Group Scholarship Helps Fix Inequality in Graduate Education for People With Disabilities
*Pinto Human Rights Code Review Restores Cancelled Thunder Bay Public Hearings After AODA Alliance Gets CBC to Cover its Earlier Cancellation
*Bringing Russia to the Disabled

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https://www.accessibilitynews.ca/accessibility-news-march-242012-update/