Learner’s Corner
Resources for Learners

Learning to Say NO (1998)
Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario (LDAO)

A resource guide for women with Learning Disabilities (LD). Contains excellent information on self-help approaches: skills for identifying workplace harassment, developing communication and assertiveness skills, valuable information on identification of LD and its impact and advice on strategies to compensate.
Cost : $25.68
Contact : Diane Wagner, Resource Counsellor, LDAO, 365 Bloor Street East, Suite 1004, Box 39, Toronto, ON, Tel.(416) 929-4311.
ldaoresource@lefca.com

Pronunciation Pairs (1998)
Laubach Literacy of Canada

A comprehensive course to help students recognize and pronounce the individual sounds of English and to differentiate sounds they often confuse. Includes a variety of exercises and activities, provides practise in pronunciation of individual sounds as well as stress and intonation. Teacher's manual contains extended activities and suggestions.
Contact : Laubach Literacy of Canada, 70 Crown St., Suite 225, Saint John NB E2L 2X6, Tel. (506) 634-1980, Fax (506) 634-0944, http://www.nald.ca/llc.htm

Oakland Readers (1998)
Laubach Literacy of Canada

A series of four books for new readers, written at reading levels 1 to 4 respectively. Each series contains stories told by seven to eight learners about their lives, covering such topics as being on welfare, racism, family relationships, and teenage pregnancy. Provides excellent supplemental reading for students.
Cost : $21.75
Contact : Laubach Literacy of Canada, 70 Crown St., Suite 225, Saint John NB E2L 2X6, Tel. (506) 634-1980, Fax (506) 634-0944.

Grandfather Bear -- A Story told in Cree (1996)
by Madeline Davis Sr.

A story about a young girl who receives wonderful gifts from her Grandfather Bear, as told by Elder Madeline Davis Sr. Contact : Lana Garbitt, Administrator, Twin Sisters Publishing Company, P.O. Box 160, Moberly Lake, B.C. V0C 1X0, Tel. (250) 788-9754, Fax (250) 788-9347, E-mail : info@TwinSisters.bc.ca

Interlake Insights (1998)
Interlake Adult Learning Association (IALA)

A collection of learners writings, the latest publication from IALA. Stories have a rural, prairie flavour, and learners have greatly improved their writing skills in the time they have been working in the Interlake programs. Contact : Margaret Chambers, Coordinator, IALA, Box 128, Arnes MB R0C 0C0, Tel. (204) 642-5759, Fax (204) 642-5680, chambers@ecn.mb.ca

Funny You Should Ask : Living with a Disability (1996)
by Rawnie Dunn

Presents a humorous collection of short stories which describe what it is like to be a woman living with a disability. Rawnie, a single mother who is a wheelchair user, provides her readers with insight into the barriers that people with disabilities face while they work, raise children and try to have some fun. Cost : $14 Contact : Council of Canadians with Disabilities, 926-294 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg MB R3C 0B9, Tel. (204) 947-0303, Fax (204) 942-4625.

Good Stuff (1997)
by Jeanette Paul

Meant for the adult who is a new or rusty reader. A mixture of stories that are fresh, some of them true. A hint of self-help is in here too. You will find poems with pizazz. Word puzzles to play with. Letters that touch the heart.
Cost : $12
Contact : Brenda Lee, South Shore Adult Education, 880 Hudson Street, Suite E100, Greenfield Park, QC J4V 1H1, Tel. (450) 676-1843, Fax (450) 676-1350.

The School Car : Bringing the Three R's to Newfoundland's Remote Railway Settlements (1936-1942) (1997)
by Randy P. Noseworthy

A detailed account of the School on Wheels program, from its beginnings in 1936 through to its discontinuance in 1942., along the main line of the Newfoundland Railway, between St. John's and Port aux Basques.
Contact : Randy P. Noseworthy, P.O. Box 23, Whitbourne, NF A0B 3K0, Tel. (709) 759-2725, gazebo.hill@nf.sympatico.ca
http://www3.nf.sympatico.ca/gazebo.hill/rpn.html/index.html

Access to Justice Network

http://www.acjnet.org/

Parents and Children Together Online

http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/index.html