Right to Read : Ontario Human Rights Commission Inquiry into human rights...
October 3, 2019Reading is a fundamental skill that students must have to navigate their school experience and their later lives. Our public schools should be able to teach students to read. Yet, this...
View ArticleOHRC initiatives related to disability and education 1999 – 2019
2019Letter to Minister of Education re: Policy/Program Memorandum (PPM) – school board policies on service animalsLetterThe OHRC responded to the Ministry of Education’s consultation on its draft PPM...
View ArticleRight to Read: Inquiry into Reading Disabilities Backgrounder
The Ontario Human Rights Commission is conducting a public inquiry into human rights issues affecting students with reading disabilities in Ontario’s public education system. What are reading...
View ArticleVoices from community partners
The Learning Disabilities Associations (LDAs) across Canada started from the Toronto office in 1963 and today is overseen coast-to-coast by the LDA of Canada. The LDAC led the efforts involving the...
View ArticleVoices from the community
[The] public school refused to acknowledge or accept the dyslexia diagnosis until she was seven. … Without timely remediation, my daughter is barely able to read and write in English as she enters...
View ArticleProposed content for an OHRC policy on the discriminatory display of names,...
September 23, 2021The OHRC is proposing the following content for inclusion in a policy statement on the discriminatory display of names, words and images:ScopeThe purpose of the policy statement on...
View ArticleRight to Read backgrounder: About the inquiry
February 28, 2022 Why an inquiry?On October 3, 2019, the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) began a public inquiry into whether students with reading disabilities have meaningful access to...
View ArticleRight to Read backgrounder: What the community said
February 28, 2022 Engaging with the publicThe Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) received significant input from the public, and analyzed both quantitative and qualitative data. For example, 1,425...
View ArticleRight to Read inquiry – community support
“We strongly support the Right to Read inquiry and its recommendations. Research demonstrates the effectiveness of explicit, systematic instruction in phonemic awareness and phonics, and early...
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