La pandémie de COVID-19 a mis à rude épreuve les systèmes de santé de nombreux pays qui ont dû, dans un court laps de temps et dans un climat d’urgence, réorganiser leur offre de services pour répondre aux impératifs de la crise. Au Canada, c’est la province de Québec qui, au vu du nombre d’infections et de décès liés à la COVID-19, a été la plus durement touchée lors de la première vague (Dubois, Borgès da Silva et Prud’homme, 2022), avec un total de 59 845 cas confirmés entre mars et jui...

This is a book by and about Frank O. Etheridge, an African-American musician from an age of cultural explosion. The decade after World War II saw the coming-of-age of marginalized cultures, and in North America a new voice emerged among peoples of African descent. Etheridge performed in a period when some of the greatest cultural producers of the African-American heritage assumed center-stage. From Shanghai to Singapore; from India to Africa and beyond, Frank Etheridge left us a detailed r...

First published in 1994. The chapters that make up this book are not primarily about disability or visual impairment. What they do address is the right of all people to have further education and training made available in ways that meet their needs regardless of gender, race, age and ability. This book examines their entitlement to this education and some of the ways in which it can be made accessible. The issues raised are relevant to all people entering further education and training.

This book, originally published in 1995, is about ability, not disability. It is about what children can do and how they can progress. All children have the moral, ethical and legal right to be educated, no matter what barriers society puts in their way because of their physical disabilities. Dual sensory impaired children, like all others, have the right under the Education Reform Act, 1988, to a broadly-based and balanced curriculum that is appropriate to their needs since they, like any...