SOSC 1930 Lecture : Lecture Notes II.docx
8 Apr 2013
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As we grow older, we experience certain disabling. Statistics canada reports that 3. 2% of canadian children have a learning disability that"s the equivalent of one child in every school bus full of children. Statistics canada reports that as children make the transition from home to school, the number diagnosed with a learning disability grows by nearly 25%. 2006 among canadians aged 15 and over by almost 40 per cent to 631,000 people, making it one of the fastest growing types of disabilities in canada that isn"t related to aging. For a full copy of the daily release of december 3, 2007 from statistics canada please go to http://www. statcan. ca/daily/english/071203/d071203a. htm. Children have a learning disability more than all the other disabilities combined. Our schools are trying to implement programs to help them. In contemporary western culture, to be disabled is to be disadvantaged regardless of how much success one achieves individually.
