Breton Ability Centre Archives - Nova Scotia Advocate

Letter: What year is this, really? No more warehousing of children who live with intellectual disabilities!

August 12, 2020

After reading about the construction of a new building for children with learning disabilities or autism as young as two years old, Kathy Myketyn looks at how society deals with people with learning disabilities over the last 90 years or so. “Step-up to add your voice for those who have none, to stop this human rights travesty,” she writes.

Building for people living with intellectual disabilities will segregate children as young as two years old from family, community

July 29, 2020 3 Comments

“The way that we’re looking at it, regardless of whether there’s four residents or 40 or 400, you’re taking children away from their families. What the press release says is that it will house children from two to 18 years old. No two year old should be removed from their family. No parent wants to have their child sent to live somewhere else, they will only agree when there are no alternatives provided, says Patricia Neves, Acting Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Association for Community Living.