National Educational Association of Disabled Students

01/07/2026

🐈 DNA is back with another infodump event to start the spring semester! The theme of this one is animals and pets: if you have a favourite species, a story about your pet, or anything else you'd like to share that relates to the topic, feel free to stop by. This event is happening on January 22 from 12-2 pm, at the DNA Resource Centre or online!

🔗 For more information and to (optionally) register, visit bit.ly/animalinfodump

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01/04/2026

AUDIO VERSIONBy Linda Bartram Louis Braille was born on January 4, 1809 in Coupvray, France, and lost his sight at the age of three after an accident in his father’s workshop. Although the injury itself was small, an infection spread to both eyes, leaving him completely blind. He was later awarded...

12/26/2025

As 2025 comes to a close, we’re reflecting with gratitude on what this community has achieved together. Thanks to your generosity, advocacy, and shares through the past weeks, we’ve raised $670 toward our $20,000 goal.

Each contribution—large or small—has brought us closer to ensuring that students can afford essentials like tuition, therapies, mobility aids, and accessible housing. The NEADS Financial Assistance Program provides critical financial relief for students who need it most, and your support goes directly towards the return of this vital program.

If you haven’t had a chance to contribute yet, there’s still time to make a difference before year-end. Every dollar helps open doors to education.

While our official social media campaign draws to an end today, our CanadaHelps fundraiser has been extended for another three weeks. Visit https://buff.ly/lFZnHO9 before January 17th to help us reach our goal and welcome the program’s return in Winter 2026.

12/22/2025

This is the savings plan too many people never hear about! 👇

Don’t miss out!

If you or someone you love has a disability, you may be eligible to open a Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP). An RDSP beneficiary may be eligible for up to $90,000 in grants and bonds from the Government of Canada.

Learn more: Canada.ca/RDSP

Image description: Approximately 65% of eligible Canadians don’t have a Registered Disability Savings Plan. Don’t miss out, open your plan today. A woman is kissing a laughing child on the cheek.

12/20/2025

Partner with NEADS to remove financial barriers; Your business can be next to make education accessible.

For disabled and neurodivergent students, the costs of post-secondary education extend far beyond tuition. Many must purchase assistive technology, secure accessible housing, and cover expenses such as medications and therapies—all essential for full participation.

Your business can make a direct impact by sponsoring a $2,000 NEADS grant. Each grant helps offset real, disability-related costs so students can stay enrolled and complete their studies.

You can also designate your grant to reflect what matters most to your organization—supporting a student in your geographic area, in your field of work, with a specific disability type, or facing a particular barrier such as food security, housing, or access to assistive technology. NEADS will match your grant to a student whose needs align with your focus and provide an update on the difference your support made.

Organizations including Connor Clark & Lunn Financial Group, Accessible Media Inc. and Canada Post have already contributed to this vital program. Join them in building a more accessible future for students across Canada.

Sponsor a $2,000 NEADS grant today and help reopen applications for Winter 2026.

To learn more and donate, visit https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/neads/campaign/neads-fap/?version=2

12/17/2025

💻 Equal access to jobs, programs and services starts with accessible digital technologies.

We’ve just published the first set of regulations amending the Accessible Canada Regulations, related to Accessible Digital Technologies.

What does this mean for Canadians with disabilities? Federally regulated organizations now have specific requirements to make digital technologies accessible and inclusive for everyone.

Learn more about the requirements: https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/programs/accessible-canada/regulations-summary-act/amendment.html

Image description: Making digital technologies accessible is now a requirement for federally regulated organizations, not an option! Accessibility requirements for new or updated web pages, new mobile applications, new or updated digital documents. A laptop and a mobile device display a web page.

12/17/2025

LAST CALL! Sign up by 5pm PST TODAY to participate in this 2-month, art-based cohort.

This is a COMPENSATED OPPORTUNITY! Each participant will receive an honorarium of $300, distributed as $150 following the orientation, which can be used to purchase art supplies, and $150 at the project’s end — once all phases have been completed.

To register, email NEADS Educational Programming Director & Research Manager at chloee.godinjacques@neads.ca.

📣 Call for participants! 📣

NEADS is currently recruiting disabled and neurodivergent post-secondary students for a 2-month, art-based cohort focused on housing precarity and accessibility barriers. Participants will receive a set of prompts exploring disability and the right to housing. They will have one month to create an artistic response in any medium of their choice. After the creation period, students will reconvene in a facilitated focus group to discuss their artistic process, reflect on the housing issues they examined, identify shared themes, and articulate insights that emerged through the creative work. The project will conclude with a public virtual coffee house and art showcase hosted on Zoom.

Recruitment is open until Dec 17 at 5:00 pm PST!

For further details and/or to register, please email NEADS’ Educational Programming Director at chloee.godinjacques@neads.ca.

12/16/2025

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12/16/2025

12/16/2025

🗣️ Pétition pétition à l’Assemblée nationale du Québec
Demande visant à rétablir pleinement le Programme d’adaptation de domicile
✅ Le programme d'adaptation aux domiciles aide les personnes handicapées (PAD) à vivre en toute sécurité et de manière autonome, mais sa suspension temporaire a déjà causé de graves problèmes.
🏠♿ Plus de 2 460 personnes ont déjà signé ma pétition pour demander son rétablissement complet et un plan clair pour résorber le re**rd accumulé.
✍️ Vous avez jusqu'au 3 mars 2026 pour ajouter votre voix à la cause :
https://www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/exprimez-votre-opinion/petition/Petition-11839/index.html

12/16/2025

Congratulations to Elizabeth Doherty, NEADS' New Brunswick Director and Vice-Chair on her new position with NB Lung!

Join us in welcoming Elizabeth to the NB Lung team! Her role as our Manager of Health Promotion may be new, but Elizabeth has been a part of NB Lung since 1993 when she attended our Asthma Camp, and throughout the years as a patient advocate and Breathe Ambassador.

Elizabeth recently wrapped up her Bachelor of Social Work, where she completed her placement with the New Brunswick Coalition of Persons with Disabilities and the NB Association of Social Workers. Along with her credentials, Elizabeth brings the unique perspective of her lived experience as she will coordinate lung health patient navigation and program delivery.

Welcome back, again, again Elizabeth!