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Please help today to change these statistics tomorrow:
- The number of Canadians aged 15 and over with Learning Disabilities rose by almost 40% in 2006.*
- 35% of students identified with Learning Disabilities drop out of high school. This is twice the rate of their non-disabled peers. **
- Only 51% of adult with Learning Disabilities are employed as compared to 89% of the general population.**
- The Conference Board of Canada determined that dropouts from the high school class of 1987 will cost society more than $1.7 billion in lost taxes.
- Volumes of research have shown that between 30% to 70% of young offenders have experienced learning problems.
* The Participation and Activation Limitation Study PALS (Statistics Canada, 2006)
** Putting a Canadian Face on Learning Disabilities PACFOLD (The Learning Disabilities Association of Canada, 2006)
