Visit in Toronto, Canada  

Toronto - Part Five

     On Wednesday, catching up on a few things before going up to Montreal tomorrow, we went to the Bob Rumball Center for the Deaf in Toronto.  This is a multi-purpose community center with a variety of programs for deaf individuals, designed to provide opportunities for a higher quality of life, while preserving and promoting their language and culture.  The center has many programs like training low-functional adult Deaf people in skills such as woodshop, printing, packing, upholstering, crafts and more.  They have senior citizens for the nursing home and functional people at the dormitory.  Also, there is a nice church for Deaf people to see the Deaf pastor.  

     I would suggest you see their programs on their Webpage.  It is http://www.bobrumball.org, and it talls you all about the programs.  I didn't get full information, but from what I could see it cost between 50 and 100 million dollars.  One of the staff thinks there are over 160 on the staff.  Also, there are 10 group homes all over Ontario, and they have 400 acres for camping for multi-handicapped adults, low-functional adults, silent weekend programs, youth programs and more.  Overall the program service is the best one in the world that I know of.

     On Thursday I will be ready to go to Montreal.