Monthly Archives: January 2020

Request Accommodations for Deferreds/Supplementals NOW

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If you were approved to write a regular deferred or supplemental final in February 2020, it’s time to request accommodations.

Only paper request forms can be accepted for these types of exams. Our online form is not set up for deferreds/supplementals.

Start by visiting this URL to find out the date and time of your exam(s): https://sesd.usask.ca/exams/schedule/deferred-supplemental/search.php

Then, visit AES during regular office hours to fill out your paper request form(s). We are open Monday to Friday, 8:30-4:30 and we’re located in E1 Administration Building.

We can only make accommodations for your exam(s) if you fill out a request form for us.

KEEP OUR DEADLINES IN MIND! We require two full weeks’ notice to set up deferred and supplemental finals:

If your exam is on February 18, your deadline is 4:30pm on February 4.

If your exam is on February 19, your deadline is 4:30pm on February 5.

If your exam is on February 20, your deadline is 4:30pm on February 6.

If your exam is on February 21, your deadline is 4:30pm on February 7.

Bu there’s no reason to wait to the last minute. Since you can find out the dates of your deferreds and supplementals now, why not just submit your requests NOW?

Questions? email the AES Exam Team at aesexams@usask.ca

Registered Disability Savings Plan

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Learn how the Registered Disability Savings Plan, Registered Retirement Savings Plan, and Disability Tax Credit can benefit you!
• What is an RDSP?
• Who Qualifies?
• Should I use an RDSP or RRSP?
• What is the Disability Tax Credit?

Michael Hernik MPAcc, CPA from the Edwards School of Business will be answering these questions and more. Anyone is welcome to join!

Date: Friday, February 21, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: NSILC Office – 237 5th Ave N., Saskatoon, SK
Cost: Free
Registration: Required. Register on Eventbrite or by calling 306-665-5508

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North Saskatchewan Independent Living Centre
www.nsilc.com
#237 5th Avenue North
Saskatoon, SK S7K 2P2
Ph: 306.665.5508

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ADHD Open Panel

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Do you have questions about ADHD? Think you might have it? Wondering what to do? Ask our panel of experts! Speakers from Student Wellness Centre, and Access and Equity Services are available, including a physician, a community mental health nurse, a dietitian, a student advisor (assistive technology) and counsellors. Free! All registered students are welcome for this one hour session.

When: January 30, 2020
Time: 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location: USask Community Centre, Marquis Hall, room 104

Withdraw with 75% tuition credit

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The deadline to withdraw from a class with 75% tuition credit is January 24, 2020.

Questions? Talk to Student Central as they can help with:
– registration problems
– process late registrations, audit registrations and section changes
– help you navigate PAWS

askus@usask.ca or 306-966-1212

A NATIONAL Group for Students with Disabilities

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The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) unites 500,000 students who are members of over 80 college and university students’ unions across Canada. By lobbying, conducting research, mobilizing members, and organizing campaigns the Federation works to ensure a high quality system of post-secondary education that is accessible to all. Within the Federation there is a Constituency Group for Students with Disabilities.

Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)
338C Somerset Street West
Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 0J9
Telephone: (613) 232-7394
Fax: (613) 232-0276
E-mail: web@cfs-fcee.ca
Web site: http://www.cfs-fcee.ca

The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) is an alliance of students associations and student unions representing over 300,000 students from 23 post-secondary institutions in Canada. CASA represents and defends the interests of post-secondary students to federal and inter-provincial levels of government.

Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA)
P.O. Box Station D
Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 6H8
Telephone: (613) 236-3457
E-mail: casacomm@casa.ca
Web site: http://www.casa.ca/

Empower U Webinar: Right to Education, Perspectives of Post-Secondary Student Leaders With Disabilities, January 22nd!

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Join the Nothing About Us Without Us: Empower U, Learn to Access Your Disability Rights team for Empower U webinars to get more in-depth information about the rights of persons with disabilities in Canada, and how various organizations use human rights perspective to ensure rights, inclusion and equality of persons with disabilities.

Our first webinar is on the Right to Education, Perspectives of Post-Secondary Student Leaders With Disabilities on Wednesday, January 22nd from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST. Captioning will be provided.

Speakers:
Nadia Kanani, Advocacy and Finance Coordinator, Students for Barrier-free Access, University of Toronto
Kat Kahnert-Wolchak, Coordinator, York Federation of Students Access Centre, York University
Morgan Sears, Cody Joy & Julia Abundo, Managing Team, Memorial Disability Information Support Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Register for the webinar here: https://secure.neads.ca/register/en.php?id=20ON
On the day of the webinar access the session through this Zoom meeting link:
https://zoom.us/j/119496434  Meeting ID: 119-496-434 (No password needed)
Optional teleconference:  1-647-558-0588
Meeting ID: 119-496-434 (then press #)
Participant ID: None required  (just press #)

Description: A series of ten webinars will offer training for people with disabilities who are willing to make a commitment to share their knowledge in their communities / organizations with their peers for the purpose of increased awareness of how to remedy discrimination using more familiar (Human Rights Codes) and newer instruments (United Nations Convention on The Rights of Persons With Disabilities (CRPD) and the CRPD’s Optional Protocol to train other people to do likewise.

Learning Objectives:
•        To increase the number of Canadians with disabilities, particularly youth with disabilities and people with disabilities from ethno-cultural communities, who are knowledgeable about available human rights remedies to discrimination and how to access these remedies
•        To increase capacity of Canadians with disabilities to share that knowledge with their peers so that more people across Canada (particularly with disabilities and multi-ethnic communities) will have the information necessary to navigate the systems where Canadians can seek redress for discrimination

Learning Outcomes –  At the end of the training participants will have:

•        In-depth knowledge of how to use United Nations Convention on The Rights of Persons With Disabilities (CRPD) and the Optional Protocol, as well as Human Rights Codes and the Accessible Canada Act
•        In-depth understanding of how to access and navigate the systems where Canadians with disabilities can seek redress from discrimination

Webinars will be held every Wednesday at 1.00 pm EST from January 22 to March 25, 2020. Recordings will be available to participants after webinars.

About the Project:
The project Nothing About Us Without Us: Empower U, Learn to Access Your Disability Rights is funded by Employment and Social Development Canada and implemented by the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) in collaboration with the Canadian Multicultural Disability Centre Inc. (CMDCI), Citizens With Disabilities – Ontario (CWDO), the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) and the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS).