I'm a former employment counsellor and professional counsellor as well in the career area, and I have been project manager of our initiative. So I will speak from that perspective.
Again, it depends on the severity, if you will, of the disability and the amount of functioning that the person has left. In many cases it's as simple as needing the desk raised to get a chair under it. In others it means needing to have physical space enough to have a lifting chair, a stand-up chair, various things, in order to accommodate the person's needs. In other cases it's a matter of needing pointers, computer equipment, and so on.
We've had banks, for example, approach us at the provincial level and ask what they can do. They've really wanted to hire. There is no one particular accommodation. It is very individualized, depending on the individual's need.
I would have to say it's the same in regard to the type of work—if you want to call it the job classification—as well. We see people able to do many things that we would think they cannot do, as well as able-bodied people, when we actually look at what they're doing. No, they may not be a roofer anymore, but they may be able to be a supervisor in a manufacturing plant. They may be able to continue working in the field. I met a gentleman just last week, actually, here in Ontario whose spinal cord injury was the result of an accident in the workplace, and he is now in retraining to redefine himself. He is not what is called a high-level quad, but he is very capable of doing many things still, and very independent.
So there's no one solution to that question. It depends on the individual's skills and abilities.
I've listened to my colleagues here address issues of literacy, and in some cases our clientele also have literacy issues, particularly farmers in Saskatchewan who have been injured working in their trade. They may have left school very early. So that's another whole issue—the whole issue of literacy, their own individual capabilities. One of the challenges we've had with our clients is that traditionally our occupational possibilities have been limited by the number of weeks that our people can get training dollars for.