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Based Rehabilitation has produced a foreign policy
research paper that outlines the foreign policy and
development assistance implications of community-based
rehabilitation for persons with disabilities. 198
Conclusion
Children with disabilities in Canada have varying
opportunities to live full lives. While Canada has
publicly-funded health and educational systems that are
designed with “everyone” in mind, these systems do not
necessarily meet the particular needs of children with
disabilities.
Children with disabilities are vulnerable members of
society. Early identification and intervention services can
be vitally important to their development but are not
universally available. The supports and services
necessary to ensure their Convention rights are widely
seen as a privilege and not as an entitlement. The quality
of care and support available varies according to what
part of the country the child lives in and programs are
limited or reduced in times of fiscal restraint.
Public services do not sufficiently recognize the extra
demands placed on the families of children with
disabilities and many need better financial, physical,
social and emotional supports.
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Endnotes
1. Hodgkin and Newell, pp. 293-314
2. Cited in Canadian Institute of Child Health (CICH), 1994, pp. 151-152
3. Ibid, pp. 149-150
4. CICH, 1994, pp. 152-154
5. Ibid, pp. 153, 155
6. Roeher Institute, 1996, p. 128
7. Ibid, pp. 41-42, 134
8. CICH, 1997, p. 1
9. Erin Anderssen
10. CICH, 1994, p. 152
11. Canadian Human Rights Commission, p. 25
12. Hayes, et al, Services for Children with Special Needs in Canada,
pp. 92-185, 192-193
13. CICH, 1994, p. 163
14. Cases include: Deol v. Canada (1992) (F.C.A. No. A-280-90); Poste v.
Canada (1997), 140 FTR 126; Lau v. Canada (1998) F.C.J. No. 485;
Fei v. Canada (1998) 1 F.C. 274; Yogeswaran v. Canada (1997), 129
FTR 151; Gingiovenenu v. Canada (1995), 102 FTR 76; Choi v. Canada
(1995) 98 FTR 308; Ma v. Canada (1998) 140 FTR 311; Hussain v.
Canada (1996), 35 Imm. L.R. (2d) 86; Norma Won, Human Rights
Centre, University of Ottawa, e-mail communications to the Coalition,
August 25, 1998
15. Citizenship and Immigration Canada, p. 24
16. Federal Task Force on Disability Issues, p. 11
17. Canadian Human Rights Commission, p. 23; Federal Task Force on
Disability Issues, pp. 28-29
18. Benefits and Services for Persons with Disabilities, In Unison: A
Canadian Approach to Disability Issues, p. 2
19. Canadian Human Rights Commission, pp. 23-24
20. Erin Anderssen
21. Canadian Association for Community Living, 1999, p. 1
22. Alberta, Premier’s Council, 1992
23. Alberta, Premier’s Council, 1998, p. 1
24. Alberta, Premier’s Council, 1992; New Brunswick, Premier’s Council
on the Status of Persons with Disabilities, Information Brochure
25. Roeher Institute, 1996, p. 86
26. Canadian Human Rights Commission, pp. 77-78
27. Court Challenges Program of Canada, pp. 1-2
28. Federal Task Force on Disability Issues, p. 49
29. Canadian Association for Community Living, 1997, p. 1
30. Roeher Institute, 1996, p. 110
31. Roeher Institute, 1994, p. 16
32. Ibid, p. 17
33. Roeher Institute, 1996, p. 118
34. Ibid, p. 116
35. British Columbia, pp. 5-6
36. Canadian Association of Independent Living Centres
37. Medicine Hat Regional Association for the Mentally Handicapped, p. 1
38. Canadian Association of Independent Living Centres, 1995a, p. foreword
39. Roeher Institute, 1996, p. 112
40. Cited in David Roberts,
41. Bruce Uditsky, p. 4
42. Roeher Institute, 1996, p. 31
43. Canadian Association for Community Care, p. 11
44. Ibid, p. 3
45. Office des personnes handicappées du Québec, p. 2
46. Con Hnatiuk, pp. 1-2
47. Stienstra and Kellerman, pp. 9, 55, 56
48. Office des personnes handicappées du Québec, p. 2
49. Stienstra and Kellerman, pp. 60-62
50. Ibid, p. 56
51. Canadian Association for Community Care, pp. 15-17
52. Ibid, p. 17
53. Sharon Hope Irwin, SpeciaLink Brief, p. 3
54. Cited in Irwin and Lero, pp. 97-98
55. SpeciaLink, What about early childhood education and care?, p. 2
56. Sigrid McNab, p. 1
57. Hayes et al, pp. 189-190
58. Roeher Institute, 1993, p. 27
59. CICH, 1994, p. 158
60. Roeher Institute, 1996, p. 101
61. Sharon Hope Irwin, “Inclusive Child Care in Canada,” p. 78
62. Roeher Institute, 1993, p. 168
63. Cited in Irwin and Lero, p. 59
64. Cited in SpeciaLink, Correspondence to the Coalition, 17 August, 1998, p. 2