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*Please visit the new **Literacy for All** web site at @http://literacyforallab.ca! This content on this wiki has been moved to the new site. This wiki will be removed shortly. = = = Literacy for All: = = A Community of Practice for Elementary Teachers of Students with Significant Disabilities =

The content on this site was collected from two communities of practice (2011-2012 and 2012-2013) and has been archived for the use of teachers, learning coaches and others who want to learn more about working with and support literacy learning for students with significant disabilities. **M** **embership to this wiki was limited to participating teachers from 2011 - 2013. T****he content on this wiki has been archived and made available to everyone without the need to join the wiki.**

The purpose of this information is two-fold:
 * provide information and resources for teachers in Alberta who want to learn more about literacy instruction for students with significant disabilities.
 * to model what an online community of practice for teachers could look like.

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Yoder, Erickson, and Koppenhaver (1997), found in David E. Yoder, “Having My Say”, AAC Augmentative and Alternative Communication 17, 0743-4618 (2001), p. 7. The Literacy Bill of Rights takes and broadens the classic definitions of literacy and looks at it with a new context. This work encourages us to see how students with significant disabilities and literacy go together. It clearly illustrates that all students have the //right// to literacy.