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Information about Ontario's educational requirements, procedures, and best practices for Individual Education Plans.

"Building bridges...pathway to inclusion for persons with intellectual disability"

A website dedicated to the inclusion of all individuals in community. There are three main parts:

Inclusion Press
Person centred planning and resource material

Inclusion Network
Workshops and training events for inclusion

Marsha Forest Centre
Inclusion, family, community, PlayFair teams

"Inclusive Education Canada" (IEC) will bring together a network of individuals who can provide training, consultation, research and information sharing will b e available to both teachers and parents on how to move our schools toward inclusive practice.

Individualized Funding Coalition of Ontario - to learn more about individualized funding and supports that work.

Ontario's Infant Hearing Program

The first months and years of a baby's life are critical for developing language. Most children can hear right from birth. They learn to talk by imitating the sounds around them and the voices of their parents and caregivers. But that's not true for every child.

Every year in Ontario, nearly four in 1,000 babies are born deaf or hard of hearing. More lose their hearing later as they grow. Many of these children may need to learn speech and language differently, so it's important to detect hearing loss as early as possible.

Halton, Peel, Waterloo, and Wellington-Dufferin
Central West Infant Hearing Program
Telephone: (905) 855-3557
Toll Free: 1- (877) 374-6625 (ERINOAK)
Fax number: 905 855-9451
TTY: (905) 855-4925
Website: http://www.erinoak.org/

The Institute for Rehabilitation Research and Development (IRRD) at The Rehabilitation Centre (Ottawa) was created to foster research, development, and networking activities with a focus on the clinical and practical application of rehabilitation services. Local IRRD objectives include coordinating research efforts at The Rehabilitation Centre and coordinating research-based conferences, seminars, and public lectures. Nationally, the IRRD promotes research networking, encourages information exchange, facilitates multi-centred research studies, and provides research consultation and project management.

The international organization's aim is to make people aware of the potential that augmentative communication has to change the lives of individuals around the world who are non-speaking. Another goal is to find new approaches and technologies to help people communicate in different ways.

http://www.isaac-online.org/

http://www.isaac-canada.org/

The Ministry of Community and Social Services provides funding to non-profit agencies for interpreter and intervenor services for people who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, or deaf-blind.