The BC Ministry of
Health - Fred
Gingell Memorial Stuttering Treatment Support Program
The BC Ministry of
Health now has funds available to help 15 British Columbia residents each
year. The funding is for up to 75% of the cost of a three-week intensive
program for people who stutter and are 19 years of age or older. For information
contact:
Dr. Linda Rammage
Director, Provincial Voice Care Resource Program
G & L Diamond Health Care Centre Vancouver General Hospital
4th Floor, 2775 Laurel Street
Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9
Tel: (604) 875-4204 fax: (604) 875-5382
e-mail: lira@unixg.ubc.ca
Fred Gingell,
was a person who stuttered and was a member of the Provincial legislature
for several decades, passed away in 1999. He was instrumental in helping
BCAPS establish this yearly support program in 1996. BCAPS felt it would
be a fitting memorial and tribute to a man who was an inspiration, mentor
and friend, to have the Ministry of Health name their treatment support
program after him.
Note: The Federal
Employment Insurance department and the BC Ministry of Social Services,
are two other possible sources of funding for people who stutter. Contact
those offices for more information |
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BCAPS FUNDING
BCAPS has limited
funds available to those with a demonstrated need to obtain stuttering
therapy and who are in need of financial assistance to attend speech therapy
clinics in British Columbia, operated by qualified speech language pathologists.
To
print BCAPS Funding Application Form, just follow instructions below:
Click
here to see attached two page funding application form.
When you view the application form on your monitor you can then choose
the print command and your printer will print the two page form for you.
You can also download the pdf file of the application form to your desktop,
view it and print it anytime you want to.
Disability Tax Credit for people
who stutter Revenue Canada has
recognized stuttering as a disability entitling people to apply for a
tax credit of $4,233.00 (1997). To apply for the Disability Tax Credit
get form T2201 from your nearest Revenue Canada Taxation Office. Or if
you have Acrobat Reader (free software from Adobe) you can download a
pdf file for Disability Tax Credit Form T2201, from the Revenue Canada
site, view it on your monitor and print it out on your laser printer.
The Revenue Canada site address is www.rc.gc.ca and the page address for
Form T2201 is http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca/E/pbg/tf/t2201eq/README.html - Revenue Canada Form T2201
Employment Issues Related
to Stuttering
Stuttering falls under
the category of "dissfluency" and is now a recognized disability
within the rules and regulations or the BC Ministry of Skills, Training
and Labour, a division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services. Among other
things, this entitles people who stutter, access at no charge to an Employment
Counselor specializing in people with disabilities, to assist in job search.
Further, when applying for positions in the Provincial Government, people
who stutter fall under BC Employment Equity legislation. For
more information contact: 604-831-6344
For Incidences/Problems
with discrimination in the work place related to stuttering contact:
The BC Employment Standards Office
201 - 865 Hornby Street
Vancouver, BC
(604) 775-1974 |
