Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In terms of isolation, I think the general socio-economic conditions in the community have had huge impacts on learning. The example I was sharing with you, within the Island Lake area alone.... It's hard to believe, but we've only had an audiologist for the last year. When our a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  With regard to the clinical database, the clinical area of special education, for the first time, with Jordan's principle funding and the high-cost special education funding, from two different departments, leveraging that funding has allowed us to create a database, so for all f

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. Good morning. My name is Dr. Don Shackel. I'm the Assistant Director of Special eEucation at MFNERC. The area of first nation capacity that I will speak to this morning relates to first nation children with special needs living in first nations communities in Manitob