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3. Legal Context: Capacity, Decision-Making and Communication Disabilities

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  • Slides
  • Narrative
  • Supplemental Resources

Lesson Content

Slides Status
1

Agenda

2

Legal Capacity

3

Legal Capacity: Implications for People with Communication Disabilities

4

Laws Impacting the Exercise of Legal Capacity

5

Capacity Laws: Capacity Criteria/Tests

6

Features of Legal Capacity

7

Capacity Assessment

8

Decision-Making with Support People

9

Substitute Decision-Making

10

Equality and Accessibility – Legal Sources

11

Human Rights Acts and the Duty to Accommodate

12

Duty to Accommodate, Legal Capacity and People with Communication Disabilities

13

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

14

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

15

Session 3 Completed

Slides

  • Agenda

  • Legal Capacity

  • Legal Capacity: Implications for People with Communication Disabilities

  • Laws Impacting the Exercise of Legal Capacity

  • Capacity Laws: Capacity Criteria/Tests

  • Features of Legal Capacity

  • Capacity Assessment

  • Decision-Making with Support People

  • Substitute Decision-Making

  • Equality and Accessibility – Legal Sources

  • Human Rights Acts and the Duty to Accommodate

  • Duty to Accommodate, Legal Capacity and People with Communication Disabilities

  • Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

  • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

  • Session 3 Completed

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