Summary
Today, Minister Lecce announced that our government is investing more than $250,000 in the first blind and low vision program for Francophone students in the province. This ground-breaking initiative at the Centre Jules-Léger provincial school demonstrates the province’s commitment to ensuring all Ontario students succeed in the classroom and reach their full potential.
Key Messages
- For four decades, Centre Jules-Léger, in partnership with the Franco-Ontarian community, has ensured Francophone children and students who are Deaf or hard of hearing, blind or have low vision, are deafblind, or have learning disabilities will develop their full intellectual, linguistic, spiritual, social and emotional potential.
- This new program ensures that Francophone students who are blind or have limited vision get the quality education they deserve by providing more accessible materials and braille instruction in French.
- With our investment of over $250,000, 127 students currently being supported by Centre Jules-Léger’s resource services in their local schools will benefit from accessible course material and new programming. Four students will learn two different types of braille in French.
- The government’s funding is also supporting the purchase of a variety of specialized equipment to emboss texts and enable blind students to read and write in braille, as well as technology to enlarge documents to facilitate reading for students with low vision.
- This ground-breaking initiative at the Centre Jules-Léger provincial school demonstrates the province’s commitment to ensuring all Ontario students succeed in the classroom and reach their full potential.