Cognitive Accessibility Resources
There are between 2.4 million and 5 million adults with cognitive disabilities in Canada, and millions more around the world. Please use these resources to help make your products, services, workplaces and built environments more inclusive of people of all cognitive abilities.
- Watch our cognitive accessibility videos
- Financial Security and Financial Abuse Prevention Among Persons with Cognitive Disabilities (HTML)
- Financial Security and Financial Abuse Prevention Among Persons with Cognitive Disabilities (PDF download)
- Towards a Functional Definition of Cognitive Disability (HTML)
- Towards a Functional Definition of Cognitive Disability – accessible text version (PDF download)
- Towards a Functional Definition of Cognitive Disability – visual graph version (PDF download)
- “They helped me stand on my own two feet”: Canadian parents with intellectual disabilities in child protection (research article, Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, HTML)
- Digital Payments: A Framework for Inclusive Design (PDF download)
- “I Don’t Think I Have Ever Worked Harder on a Case”: Needs of Canadian Child Protection Workers and Parents With Intellectual Disabilities (research article, Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, HTML)
Cognitive Accessibility Videos
Financial Abuse Prevention
Financial abuse can take many forms. Persons with cognitive or other functional disabilities can be especially vulnerable to financial abuse. Videos in this playlist are meant to inform persons with cognitive disabilities and their caregivers about financial abuse so that it can be stopped or prevented.
Videos in this playlist were created following publication of this policy brief by Open, prepared for the Office for Disability Issues at the request of The Sinneave Family Foundation with the intent of informing the development of Canada Disability Benefit regulations.
In addition to the financial abuse videos, Open has also published the following guides for both people with cognitive disabilities as well as their caregivers.
How to Stop or Prevent Financial Abuse: A Guide for Persons With Cognitive Disabilities (HTML)
How to Stop or Prevent Financial Abuse: A Guide for Caregivers (HTML)
Cognitive Accessibility in the Workplace
Whether intentional or not, workforces often include people with varying cognitive abilities. They may be naturally neurodiverse, but that doesn’t mean they are naturally inclusive of those with cognitive disabilities. Videos in this playlist are meant to help employers make more positive and productive workplaces by making them neuroinclusive.