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Sign language
Recommendation 3:
When counselling is mandated in order for parents to keep or have their children returned from care, MCFD should ensure that counselling is meaningfully available to parents with disabilities. This must include providing sign language interpreters for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Able Mothers: The Intersection of Parenting, Disability and the Law
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West Coast Leaf
West Coast Leaf
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Recommendation 16:
The provincial government should ensure K-12 public education funding is sufficient to mitigate inequalities and to ensure appropriate inclusion of students with diverse learning needs.
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Recommendation 169:
Making courtrooms accessible to people with visual, physical, and hearing impediments and to people who do not speak French or English. Courtrooms and other justice system support service buildings must be wheelchair accessible, and sign language interpreters, braille translations, Bliss symbolics, and other interpretive support personsand materials should be available to people who seek access to the justice system. Qualified translators must also be available in the courtroom and for dealings with outside services such as legal aid, police, victim services, and lawyer referral services. (p.7 – 118)
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Recommendation 23:
Designation of ASL/LSQ as official languages.
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Recommendation 16:
Deaf women must have access to a government-funded sign language interpreter at their intake assessment for legal aid, and, if they are approved, at their first and all subsequent meetings with their legal aid lawyer. Sign language interpreters should be well-versed in legal terminology to provide quality service to deaf clients. Government should also ensure that deaf women have access to interpreter services when they attend court.
Able Mothers: The Intersection of Parenting, Disability and the Law
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West Coast Leaf
West Coast Leaf
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2014
2014
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Recommendation 164:
[Shelters should] Keep information about community ASL interpreters available to shelter staff. (p.9)
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Recommendation 158:
[All police forces, board and commissions should] Provide or co-ordinate, with community agencies, supports for victims with disabilities. These could include TDD lines, signers, bliss board interpreters, information in Braille and cultural interpreters with knowledge of issues of violence….(p.51)
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