Expert questioned on risk of closing N.S. facilities for people with disabilities
A Nova Scotia government lawyer pressed an expert witness Wednesday over the risks of shifting people with intellectual disabilities out of institutional settings into the community, as a human rights inquiry entered its third day.
What Inclusion Really Means
I can count on one hand the amount of people with disabilities I knew as a kid — a few from our church and a couple from the neighborhood. I did not know anyone with a disability from my Catholic school, my soccer team or acting class. I don’t think anyone with a disability played tag with us or rode bikes with us to the pool. Even though I later worked at a summer camp with kid with disabilities, I still had very few relationships with people with disabilities. I originally studied special education in college until I discovered my other passion — writing. After a short career in television and a long career in child welfare, I returned to the work I loved, where I felt I most belonged — advocating for and with people with disabilities. Read more.......
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