Human Rights Agencies

Together with the communication disability community:

• Build an analysis and knowledge base about what the human rights duty to accommodate looks like to promote the exercise of legal capacity, choice and autonomy on an equal basis for people who have disabilities that affect communication.
• Develop a policy or guidelines specific to the Duty to Accommodate in the exercise of legal capacity, choice and autonomy for people who have disabilities that affect communication.
• Co-ordinate with all human rights commissions in Canada to develop a unified approach to communication accommodations and supports in the exercise of legal capacity, choice and autonomy.
• Engage in public awareness raising activities to promote an understanding of the duty to accommodate in decision-making and what this entails.  Focus on key sectors such as health care, capacity assessors, finance, social services,  police, legal and justice services.