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Disability Resources

Government:

• CPP Disability benefits
• EI Compassionate Care benefits (for families)
• Disability Vocational Rehabilitation Program
• Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities (helps prepare people for (self) employment
• Guide to Government of Canada Services for People with Disabilities (Guide to Government of Canada Services for People with Disabilities and their Families)
• “Persons with Disabilities Online” (resource tool for people with disabilities and their caregivers)
• CRA – topics/forms for persons with disabilities
• Access to Travel
• Workink (employment resource link for persons with disabilities)
• Manitoba Family Services and Housing
• Ontarians with Disabilities Act
• Employment and Assistance for Persons with Disabilities Act (BC)
• Manitoba Vulnerable Persons Living with a Mental Disability Act
• Alberta Family Support for Families with Disabilities (FSCD)
• Government of Saskatchewan Office of Disability Issues
• Quebec – Eligibility for disability pension
• Nova Scotia Human Rights Act
• Ontario Disability Support Program Act
• New Brunswick Disability Action Plan Strategy
• New Brunswick – Services for Special Needs or Disabled Persons
• PEI Disability Support Program

Non-government Organizations:

• The Learning Disabilities Association of Canada
• Active Living Alliance for Canadians with disability (resources linked by region)
• BC Paraplegic Association
• Independent Living Canada
• The Canadian Hearing Society
• Down Syndrome Research Foundation
• BC Disability Sports
• The Disability Foundation (BC)
• CNIB
• Learning Disabilities Association – South Vancouver Island Chapter
• ARCH Disability Law Centre (Ontario)
• Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians
• Canadian Down Syndrome Society
• Canadian Paraplegic Association (CPA)
• Parkinson Society of Canada
• War Amps
• DAWN Ontario – Disabled Women’s Network, Ontario
• Disabled Persons’ International
• BC Coalition of People with Disabilities
• Canadian Association for Community Living
• Canadian Association of Professionals with Disabilities

Community Outreach:

• Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (CHADD)
• Provincial/Territorial Contact Information
• Learning Disabilities Association of Vancouver
• Community Living BC (offering community, health and residential support for adults and children with disabilities and their families)
• Disability Information Service Helpline (DISH), Hamilton, ON
  Phone: 905-546-3474 (Voice and TDD)
  Email: DISH@hpl.ca
• Child Disability Resource Link: 1-866-346-4661

Children:

• CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research (McMaster University)
• Easter Seals Canada
• Quebec Society for Disabled Children
• Stats Can (offering types and conditions of disabilities in children of young ages)
• Canadian Council on Social Development – Disability Research Information Page (fact sheets pertaining to children with disabilities and their families)
• Reports/links and academic articles designed for parents with children with disabilities
• Family Services of Greater Vancouver
• Ability Online – online resource tool for children with disabilities
• Online video game presenting the protagonist, Rick Hansen, in a wheelchair
• Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada
• Starlight Children’s Foundation Canada
• Sunshine Foundation

Specialized Education:

• BrainBoost Tutoring
• Arrowsmith School
• Symbols Multisensory Learning Centre 
• Eaton Education Group

Adults:

• Stats Can (offering types and conditions of disabilities in adults)
• New Brunswick Department of Social Development (Adult Protection)
• Prince Edward Island Adult Protection Act
• National Adult Literacy Database Inc.

Activism/Support/Additional reading:

Activism/Support

• People First of Canada
• Active Living Alliance for Canadians with Disabilities
• The Association for the Neurologically Disabled of Canada
• Canadian Council for Rehabilitation and Work
• Canadian Centre on Disability Studies
• PLAN – Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (by and for families for families with a relative with a disability)
• Council of Canadians with Disabilities (resources for persons with disabilities by persons with disabilities)

Additional Reading

• Canada Disability News Archive:
• Human Resources and Social Development Canada: Profile of Disability in Canada (2001)
• International Journal of Disability, Community & Rehabilitation
• EnableLink (media prepared for people living with disabilities)
• National Institute of Disability Research and Research
• CBC News Viewpoint: Disability Matters
• Abilities magazine

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