Lynn Galeazza Counselling and Consulting

12/07/2025

If you or someone you love is between 16 and 18 years old, has been diagnosed with ADHD, and is enrolled in a high school in Ontario, please consider participating in this study. Your involvement will help raise awareness of how stigma affects well-being.

Contact Haley Clark (21hmc13@queensu.ca)

12/03/2025

This virtual session is an introduction/overview of key topics in the transition from youth to adulthood.

This virtual session is an introduction / overview of key topics in the transition from youth to adult.

It will provide caregivers with a broad overview of adult services, funding, and supports along with key dates for applying for adult services.

We will also introduce additional topics to consider in the transition to adult such as:
📌consent, capacity, decision making
📌post-secondary education
📌employment

Register: https://www.autismontario.com/civicrm/event/info?id=11879

12/03/2025

Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

12/02/2025

The Code acknowledges that discrimination often arises from a person's membership in a specific societal group.

When it comes to defining disability-related discrimination, the Code states that there are two common ways of understanding disability.

1. Disability as a medical condition that a person has. From this perspective, disability encompasses a broad range of conditions, some visible and some not. A disability may have been present from birth, caused by an accident, or developed over time.

2. A newer way of looking at disability is that it is not something a person has. A person with a medical condition is not necessarily prevented (or disabled) from fully taking part in society. If society is designed to be accessible and include everyone, then people with medical conditions often don’t have a problem taking part. From this point of view, disability is a problem that occurs when a person’s environment is not designed to suit their abilities.

Last night's parent group discussed how to escalate concerns within and beyond the school boards when there is a refusal to acknowledge, accommodate, and remove barriers, as well as discriminatory individuals and processes.

https://www3.ohrc.on.ca/en/students-handouts/fact-sheet-1-ontario-human-rights-code

12/01/2025

Join ARCH Disability Law Centre and the Law Society of Ontario on December 3 for a virtual discussion about disability rights in Canada.

Just a friendly reminder to join ARCH Disability Law Centre and Law Society of Ontario on December 3 for an important virtual discussion about disability rights in Canada.

Ways Forward for Disability Rights in Canada: Community involvement in UN review processes

📅 Wednesday, December 3, 2025
🕠 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM ET
💻 Virtual program
♿ ASL and captioning available
✔ Accredited for 2 hours of EDI Professionalism Content
💵 Free to attend

Keynote Speaker:
• Professor Laverne Jacobs, University of Windsor, Faculty of Law

Speakers:
• A representative of the Law Society of Ontario
• Robert Lattanzio, Executive Director, ARCH Disability Law Centre
• Elsie Tellier, Staff Lawyer, ARCH Disability Law Centre
• Dr. Susan L. Hardie, PhD, Executive Director, Eviance
• Rohini Peris, President & CEO, Environmental Health Association of Canada / Québec
• Yan Grenier, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Université Laval
• Anne MacRae
• Kerri Joffe, Staff Lawyer, ARCH (on leave)

This program was originally scheduled for National AccessAbility Week in May 2025 but will now take place on December 3 to align with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
Canada appeared before the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in March 2025 for its latest review. At this event, we will talk about the Committee’s new Concluding Observations, key findings, and how these recommendations can support disability rights advocacy and legal work in Canada. We will also share how civil society can take part in the UN reporting and review process.

Register to get the link: https://archdisabilitylaw.ca/get-involved/events/international-day-of-persons-with-disabilities/

11/18/2025

Do you know about the Trent University Community-Based Research Program? If not, I encourage you to check it out. https://www.trentu.ca/community-based-research/

Be sure to also take a look at the proposal I have made!

11/16/2025

As individuals, we will struggle to drive system change; as a collective, the system will struggle to stop us! LG

In November, we examined discipline, suspensions, expulsions, and exclusions in Module 3.

Quick Fact bite: Under the Code, education providers have a duty to assess each student with a disability individually before imposing disciplinary sanctions.

https://lynngaleazza.com/blog/exploiting-the-exclusion-provision/

11/14/2025

https://lynngaleazza.com/blog/mom-is-very-involved-are-child-and-adolescent-students-more-uncivil-2/

The education system fails to acknowledge the environment they have allowed to develop.

10/16/2025

10/08/2025

In October, we delved into Module 2, which focused on enhancing our understanding of executive function (EF) and the disabilities that arise from EF impairments. Understanding these issues is crucial, as they are legally recognized disabilities that deserve proper support and accommodations in our education system. Together, we can foster an inclusive learning environment!

10/01/2025

The researchers repeatedly link classroom incivility to a higher risk of antisocial behavior, and I have shared extensive evidence that supports the notion that we have a problem with teacher incivility in the classroom.

Does this research mean that teachers who exhibit uncivil behavior in the school are antisocial?

What the education system doesn't want you to find out about classroom incivility.

09/25/2025

My upcoming blog will focus on including the voices that have been overlooked in this study.

Spadafora, N., Al-Jbouri, E., & Volk, A. A. (2024). Are child and adolescent students more uncivil after
COVID-19?. School Psychology. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/spq0000672