by Trish Robichaud | Mar 6, 2012 | All, Commentary, Employment
Americans with disabilities are most likely to disclose their disability when they need an accommodation or have a supportive supervisor and are least likely to do so if they fear they will lose a job, or fail to gain one, by doing so. But lack of disclosure could...
by Trish Robichaud | Feb 1, 2012 | Accommodations, All, Hearing Disabilities, Media Coverage
By Jerome Lessard, The Intelligencer Jeffrey Stringer has won the first round of a five-year discrimination battle with the Department of National Defence. But the hearing-impaired former drafting technician at 8 Wing/CFB Trenton said he is not done fighting....
by Trish Robichaud | Jan 30, 2012 | All, Human Rights Cases, Media Coverage, Mental Health Disabilities
By Paola Loriggio, The Canadian Press Ontario’s human rights tribunal will weigh a challenge to Toronto’s zoning rules that experts say could affect how municipalities across the country integrate housing for people with mental illness or disabilities. City...
by Trish Robichaud | Jan 22, 2012 | All, Attitudinal Barriers, Human Rights Cases, Mental Health Disabilities
By Sarah Simpson, Citizen Betty James is hoping she’s nearing the end of a years-long battle with a local mobile home park whose aim it was, she claims, to deny her disabled son a place to live. It all started back in May of 2009. James’s son Brian, then...
by Trish Robichaud | Jan 20, 2012 | Accommodations, All, Resources/Tools, Websites
Job Accommodation Network’s (JAN) Searchable Online Accommodation Resource (SOAR) system is designed to let users explore various accommodation options for people with disabilities in work and educational settings. These accommodation ideas are not all...
by Trish Robichaud | Jan 18, 2012 | Accommodations, All, Media Coverage, Physical Disabilities
By Darah Hansen, Postmedia News; Vancouver Sun Ken Hall had only been working at the Bank of Montreal a few days when he found himself face-to-face with a particularly tactless customer. “Oh, wow. They’re hiring people like you here?” a woman asked...
