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LITERACY FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (LIL)
Learning Resources for Adults with Disabilities

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IntroductionIndependent Living PhilosophyTips for Literacy PractitionersTips for Disability Organizations How to Make Your Literacy Program Wheelchair AccessibleTips for Communicating with People who are Hard of HearingTips for Communicating with People with a Visual ImpairmentProfiles of LearnersNarrowing the Gaps Acknowledgements


Tips for Disability Organizations

We have created some useful tips for someone who is new to the area of literacy issues as they affect adult learners with disabilities:

  • There are thousands of literacy programs and organizations across Canada. Find out where your local literacy programs are located.

  • Literacy programs are run as non-profit organizations with limited budgets. Many of their tutors are dedicated volunteers who may have limited knowledge of disability issues.

  • See yourself as the "expert" on disability issues and respect the expertise of literacy practitioners on literacy issues. Offer your support and advice on disability awareness, accommodation and assistive device issues

  • If the opportunity arises, get involved in any local literacy activities through membership on literacy committees, networks or coalitions.

  • Please inform us at CAILC if you find any useful resources or sites that we do not currently have on LIL.

  • Please inform us if your Independent Living Resource Centre (ILRC) or organization is undertaking a literacy and disability project and we will post your information on this site.

  • There are numerous gaps in service. If your ILRC or organization is able to support more persons with disabilities to access literacy programming in your community, then you will have made a valuable contribution to narrowing these gaps.

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