Chloe Atkins

The PROUD research team is entering the summer months busier than ever and we wanted to update participants, followers and other interested visitors about our progress.  We are almost finished conducting interviews with employees for our Canada phase of the research project, and are now recruiting employers.  We would like to hear from organizations and … Read more

By Andrea Whiteley, Post-Doctoral Fellow for the PROUD Project While the pandemic may have slowed down our research process somewhat, our research team stayed very busy over the last year.  Our team has created an accessible website, applied for and received a TechNation grant which supported the hiring of another researcher, secured private funding for … Read more

Today is the UN International Day of the Disabled Person.  I suspect that most people don’t know and don’t care.  The problem with innumerable advocacy movements clamouring for attention and highlighting their specific cause with special months and days is that these calendar reminders have come to mean little to those outside their immediate cause.  … Read more

Canadian Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of the American with Disabilities Act
26 July 2020

Thirty years ago, the US Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, a landmark piece of civil rights law that many hoped would fundamentally change the lives of disabled Americans. It also had a resounding impact around the globe and stood as an example of legislation which mandated the physical renovation of private and public spaces and, of the workforce, to accommodate disabled individuals.