02/14/2022
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
As of Feb. 18, 2022, Communication Disabilities Access Canada (CDAC) will be an on-line resource only with consultations provided on a fee-for-service basis.
Over the past 22 years, CDAC has promoted accessibility for people who have a wide range of disabilities that affect one or more areas of understanding spoken and written language, retaining information, problem-solving and/or expressing what they want to communicate. With no core funding, we have worked at federal, provincial and international levels to describe the accessibility rights and requirements of people who use a variety of ways to communicate and who need accessible communication in community services, businesses, healthcare and education settings, police, legal and justice services.
Always in collaboration with people who have communication disabilities, CDAC’s free,online resources, webinars, trainings, and policy recommendations are used by thousands of persons who have disabilities, families and support persons, policy makers, legislators, clinicians, human rights commissions, capacity adjudicators, healthcare, police, lawyers and justice professionals.
While we recognize that CDAC’s work is not done, we feel that we have laid a solid foundation to guide the future development of meaningful accessibility standards and regulations for people who have speech, language and communication disabilities.
We thank those of you who have supported us over the years. We trust that you will continue to use our website resources and trainings to advance accessible services and human rights for Canadians who have disabilities that affect their communication.
CDAC recognizes that the implications of COVID-19 are serious for people who have disabilities that affect their communication. To help people communicate about and during Covid-19, we have compiled some resources that may be useful. We will do our best to add to these resources throughout Covid-19....