Review: Beautifully illustrated children's book teach important lessons about living with disability
$19.95, 30pp Over 15 per cent of the world’s population lives with disability, according to the United Nations. In Canada, that number is higher. Twenty-two per cent of Canadians, according to Stats Can, live with disability, and nearly half of us who live past the age of 75 deal with some disability challenge, often one that limits mobility. In 2012, 81 per cent of disabled Canadians needed to use assistive technology. Too often, Canadians with disabilities are hampered as much by stigma, bias and inadequate public services as they are by their underlying physical challenges. Beep, Beep, B...
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