Educational Institutions

Canadian Centre on Disability Studies

 
http://www.disabilitystudies.ca
The Canadian Centre on Disability Studies is a consumer-directed, university affiliated centre dedicated to research, education and information dissemination on disability issues.

 

Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com/
Google Scholar enables the user to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.

 

Graduate Program in Critical Disabilities Studies, York University, Toronto

 

http://www.yorku.ca/grads/cal/disa.htm
The programme offers a comprehensive curriculum covering major scholarly perspectives and professional issues in disability, social justice and social policy, and encouraging students to critique existing policies and practices; presents theories of human rights as a basis for understanding existing legal, economic and social rationales for inclusion in relation to systemic barriers and oppression; provides a structure for advanced research; and, provides students with research opportunities.

 

MA (Critical Disability Studies) York University

 
http://www.yorku.ca/gradcdis/
This program is offered on a full-time basis (1-year) or on a part-time (2-year) basis. The first of its kind in Canada, this program examines the systemic social, political, legal and economic barriers to the full societal inclusion of persons with disabilities.

 

National Research Council

NRC Resource Section for People with Disabilities

http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/index.html
This page has links to resources as part of the National Research Council’s employment equity initiative.

 

NEADS (National Educational Association of Disabled Students) Projects

 

http://www.neads.ca/en/about/projects/atam/
Access to Academic Materials for Print-Disabled Post-Secondary Students

This is a project conducted by NEADS and funded in part by the federal government’s Social Development Partnerships Program. The results of this study will provide English and French post-secondary students with the information, media and services they need to meet their goals.

 

School of Disability Studies, Ryerson University, Toronto

 

http://www.ryerson.ca/ds/
Unique in Canada, this program provides part-time university education to adults with a college diploma in the disability field or other related post-secondary academic credentials and work experience who are currently providing disability-related supports, services, education or advocacy. At the end of the equivalent of approximately two years of full time study, students will receive a Bachelor of Arts, B.A. (Disability Studies) from Ryerson University.