Acknowledgements

We would like to gratefully acknowledge the support provided by Human Resources Development Canada and the Nova Scotia Department of Community Services. We would also like to thank the staff at the Department of Education and in the disability and literacy organizations throughout the Halifax Regional Municipality for sharing their knowledge and providing invaluable insights into the issues associated with literacy and its impact on employability for persons with disabilities.

To those who participated in focus groups and interviews, thank you for your honest and open conversations and astute observations and suggestions. The advice and participation of the members of the Advisory Team was particularly helpful and for that we would like to extend a special thank you.

"Literacy remains part of the unfinished business of the 20th century. One of the success stories of the 21st century must be the extension of literacy to include all humankind."

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette
Launch ceremony, Literacy Decade (2003-2012)
February 13, 2002, UN Headquarters, New York