Welcome to the Whole Life and Learning Disabilities in Adult Literacy website! This is a project of the “Whole Life Approach to Learning Disabilities in Adult Literacy Settings” project, based at Literacy BC in Vancouver, Canada.
This site is a place for adult educators in BC and Canada to share ideas and resources to support adult learners who may have a learning disability, or for whom learning is difficult for all kinds of reasons. But of course, everyone is welcome to follow along and contribute!
A “whole-life approach” to learning disabilities recognizes that learning is social, cultural, emotional and also deeply personal. Successful strategies for people with learning difficulties attend to the “whole person” and diverse learning styles. In fact, successful learning strategies for people with learning difficulties can work for everyone.
Based on the experiences of many educators and experts in BC and Canada, as well as our own background research, we identified six areas of practice that support this “whole life” approach. These are “gears” that organize this website.
You can use these gears to search topics of interest. This site also features articles, resources, facilitated discussion forums and a blog. Please feel free to contribute to the forums, access our resources and let us know how we can support you and your literacy program to meet the needs of adults with learning difficulties!
