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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.

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. 

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Testimonials

We have been working with Open for over a year and it has been a pleasure; Open offers a professional, fast, efficient, detailed, and conscientious path to engaging neurodiverse communities as advisors for corporate related accessibility projects.

Nadia Hamilton, CEO, Magnusmode

We work with Open in order to develop a cognitively accessible medication management application. They provided us with a wealth of expertise regarding cognitive disabilities and accessibility while ensuring we received input directly from persons with cognitive disabilities.

Dinis Cabral, CEO, JLG Health Solutions

It is always a pleasure to work with you and your students! They were quite remarkable throughout the process. They were available, accessible and certainly their report today was spot on.

Caroline Granger, Director, Valor & Solutions