NEW BRUNSWICK LEARNING DISABILITIES SUMMIT
MARCH 25, 1999

The Learning Disabilities Association of New Brunswick 63 Peter Street, Moncton, N.B. E1A 3W3 Phone /FAX : 506-383-5077	The Meighen Centre at Mount Allison University 44 Main Street, Sackville, N.B. E4L 1A7 Phone : 506-364-2527 FAX : 506-364-2625

SUMMARY REPORT

On March 25, 1999 the First New Brunswick Summit on Learning Disabilities, sponsored by the T.R. Meighen Foundation, convened at Tweedie Hall on the campus of Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB. Forty-five people attended, representing Parents, Students, Secondary and Postsecondary Teachers, Corrections Canada Instructors, Adult Literacy Instructors, Medical Doctors, Nurses, Speech-Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Registered Psychologists, the Department of Education, the New Brunswick Teachers’ Association, and the organizers, The Meighen Centre of Mount Allison and the Learning Disabilities Association of New Brunswick.

The overwhelming observation, voiced again and again throughout the day by professionals from the various different disciplines, was that the needs of people with Learning Disabilities (LD) are not being adequately met by the health and education systems in the Province of New Brunswick, and that in the interests of both those individuals and the province itself, substantial changes need to be made.

In the interests of identifying those necessary changes, the participants spent the day focused on Learning Disabilities issues: sharing their different professional perspectives in working sessions, identifying and speaking out about their gravest concerns, narrowing them down to the four most crucial issues, and finally suggesting ways to address those issues.