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Document looks at learning disabilities and employment (PDF)
Posted: May 4, 2011 | 
Category: Essential skills
For many adults who have learning disabilities, the skills of searching and applying for a job, attending an interview, accepting a job offer and then keeping a job may be particularly difficult. This document reviews the major signs to watch for, whether you are the individual involved or the employer.
Each month NALD releases Library user statistics in a feature known as the Top 20 downloads/20 Plus téléchargés. The report examines the number of NALD Library documents, in both English and French, which are viewed and downloaded by visitors to the websites NALD, NALD@Work, BDAA and BDAA@uTravail.
A recent survey of managers by job placement agency Accountemps found they spend an average of 16 per cent of their time resolving conflicts in the workplace. That's more than an hour a day, every week – up to eight weeks a year – working out employee disputes.
Ontario pledges to help more residents receive training, find jobs
Posted: May 3, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
This year, more than 50,000 Ontarians will have access to literacy and basic skills upgrading and training that will help open the door to a good job and a stronger future.
“Kids don’t just come to school with a backpack full of books. They come with a lot of emotional issues,” says Melanie Mizzoni, child and youth worker with the Catch class program at CAMH, which is offered in partnership with the Toronto District School Board.
Ontario pledges to help more residents receive training, find jobs
Posted: May 3, 2011 |
Category: Learning
This year, more than 50,000 Ontarians will have access to literacy and basic skills upgrading and training that will help open the door to a good job and a stronger future.
The BMO Retirement Institute, a division of Bank of Montreal, said in an analysis of existing data and surveys that women tend to be less tied to their professions as a source of identity. Therefore, they are less likely to experience "depression and anxiety" when their working life is no longer central to their lives.
Founder of Grass Roots Press – and NALD board member – is champion of adult literacy
Posted: May 2, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Pat Campbell says she created Grass Roots Press in 1998 to fill a huge gap that existed for struggling readers. She is president of the Edmonton-based publishing and distribution company that specializes in adult literacy and ESL resources, and serves on the board of directors of the National Adult Literacy Database (NALD).
Frye Fest wraps up with Atwood address and planning for next year’s literary event
Posted: May 2, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Writers and their fans alike deemed this year’s Frye Festival in Moncton, N.B., as inspiring. The weekend session featured famed Canadian author Margaret Atwood described as “the icing on the cake,” by festival chair Dawn Arnold.
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