Resources

 Support and Resources for Adults with LD

The Learning Disabilities Association of America created this helpful webpage to share information, resources, and supports available for adults with learning disabilities.

Topics covered include:

• New to LD?

• Dyscalculia

• Dysgraphia

• Dyslexia

• Oral / Written Language Disorder and Specific Reading Comprehension Deficit

• Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities

 LD Online for Educators

LD Online for Educators is a website designed to share information, learning strategies, news, tips, and resources with educators on a variety of topics related to learning disabilities.

Topics include:

• Instructional strategies

• Assessment

• Language and reading skills

• Learning strategies

• Teaching mathematics

• Teaching writing

• Self-esteem and stress management

• Behaviours and social skills

 National Research Project on Literacy & Essential Skills as a Poverty Reduction Strategy

The National Research Project on Literacy and Essential Skills as a Poverty Reduction Strategy offers important insights into the links between literacy and essential skills upgrading for low-skilled adults and poverty reduction strategies in Canada. The National Research Project clearly establishes that literacy instruction can provide low-skilled adults living in poverty with important social inclusion and economic benefits that help build knowledge, confidence, resilience, and autonomy.

These topics are included in the important report:

• Report Highlights

• Key Research Findings

• Strategic Recommendations

The strategic recommendations were informed by the project’s key findings. They are organized into two areas of focus: policy recommendations and program and service delivery recommendations.

 Disability and Poverty in Canada – 2023 Report Card

Disability Without Poverty's First Annual Report Card on disability and poverty in Canada presents a series of indicators illustrating the experience of people with disabilities.

Both quantitative and qualitative data are shared. Quotes and reflections from people with disabilities are included throughout the report card to better understand the real-life challenges behind the numbers.

Here are some of the topics covered in this important report:

• Overview of Disability and Poverty in Canada

• The Depth of Disability Poverty in Canada

• Provincial and Territorial Disability Assistance Programs

• Select Sociodemographic Profile of People with Disabilities

• Barriers to Labour Force Participation

• Overview of Groups at the Highest Levels of Poverty

 Can You Make the Month?

“Can You Make the Month?” is an incredible resource designed to educate people about the realities facing people living in poverty. Using a scenario-based approach to education, “Can You Make the Month?” walks participants through the difficult decisions people living in poverty must make each month about housing, transportation, food, education, health, and more. Educational information is shared relating to each choice made and stimulates the difficult choices that need to be made.

Participants can go through three scenarios: as a single person, as a singleparent family, and as a two-parent family.

“Can You Make the Month?” tracks your monthly budget based on the choices you make to get through the month. It tracks a person’s stress level based on these choices and an inherent lack of money. In the end, you learn whether you were able to “make the month” or not, and the impact of the difficult choices you had to make.

This resource was created in Alberta, so some of the programming is different compared to Ontario, but the learning experience is profound, meaningful, and highly relevant across Canada.

The goal of this unique and impactful resource is to challenge your perspective on poverty.

 No Simple Story: Singles, Deep Poverty and Ontario Works in Toronto

“No Simple Story: Singles, Deep Poverty and Ontario Works in Toronto” is an extraordinary resource for anyone trying to learn more about poverty issues.

No Simple Story overviews the research conducted into singles on Toronto's Ontario Works (OW) caseload.

The report profiles the life stories of 30 research participants.

Their stories are profiled across the following four sections:

• PATHWAYS: This section highlights some of the reasons that people turn to Ontario Works.

• SUPPORTS: This section overviews the experiences of participants with OW and their interactions with the system.

• EXPERIENCES: This section focuses on several of the overarching themes that emerged from the interviews. Participants shared powerful stories that spoke to resilience and hope. Others shared the hardship, isolation, stigma, and discrimination they have faced.

• JOURNEYS: This section emphasizes the views of the participants as they look to the future. Some are looking forward with hope. Others are looking forward in despair, believing that their lives will only become worse and that there is no hope left for them.

 Women in the Trades

In “Women in the Trades”, Ontario Colleges share information on the benefits and accessibility of skilled trades to women.

Topics covered in this resource include:

Picture yourself... shattering stereotypes

• This section shares information on the reality that women can and do excel in the skilled trades.

Stronger Than a Stereotype

• This section overviews that there are courses and supports available to help women succeed in male-dominated trades. This includes apprenticeship training programs geared specifically to women and mentoring groups for women. It shares the strengths and skills that women bring to the skilled trades.

Did you know?

• This section highlights the four types of skilled trades (construction, industrial, motive power, and service) and links to information about sample trades in each of these categories.

 Women of Impact in Canada Learning Toolkit

Women of Impact in Canada was created as an educational resource for people of all ages. Learning about the contributions of women – in fields such as the arts, sciences, politics, and human rights – can unlock an important part of our country’s history.

Women of Impact in Canada contains a wide variety of impactful educational material, including:

Educational Guide

Educators have the power to spark a lifelong interest in learning! The Educational Guide was designed for community educators and offers guidance and ideas for introducing Women of Impact in Canada to learners of all ages.

This guide covers the following topics:

• What is a woman of impact?

• Why does gender equality matter?

• What is my role?

• Where do I start?

Individual and Group Learning

Explore a topic on your own or bring people together through a class or community project to learn more about Canadian women of impact. Find ideas for group projects and suggestions for individual study.

Reading List

Discover works of fiction and non-fiction about Canadian women of impact for young learners and youth and adult learners.

 How to Make an Inclusive Classroom for 2SLGBTQI+ Learners

ABC Life Literacy Canada wrote a helpful blog post on how to make an inclusive classroom for LGBTQI2S+ learners. Areas covered include the importance of using inclusive classroom materials and the right communication. It also gives tips on creating a safe learning environment.

 Youth and Adult Literacy

The NWT Literacy Council has a dynamic website that includes a section on youth resources.

Topics include:

• Career Life Work Series

• Comic Book Studies

• Film Studies

• English 110,120,130

• Essential Skills and Skills for Success

• Everyday Math Skills

• High Interest Low Vocabulary Books

• Skill Builders for Youth

• Violence and Learning Information Sheets