Category: How To Talk About Disability

The language surrounding disability and disabled people can sometimes be tricky for people to understand. Especially when understanding which words to use and which words to avoid.

The articles in the section are designed to help you to understand what inclusive languages and how to use it so that you can be more confident when engaging and talking to disabled people.

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Supporting Employees to Disclose a Disability in the Workplace 

Introduction Workplace inclusion is gaining more attention, and discussions about disability disclosure are becoming increasingly important. The UK government has proposed the Equality (Race and...
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Advocating for Disability Inclusion in a Changing DEI Landscape

For years, businesses have embraced Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) as a way to build fairer, more innovative workplaces. At its best, DEI fosters environments...

A Disability-Inclusive Recruitment Process

Developing a disability inclusive recruitment process is a vital step in fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. However, many organisations unintentionally create barriers during the...
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Asking About Disability on a Form

Asking about disability on a form is not the only way to understand the support a person may need. In fact, it might not even...
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Spoon Theory: Disabled People’s Energy Levels

Disables people's energy levels can be used up subtly at times as we will go onto explaining this blog. Having an understanding of the barriers...
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Including Disabled People

Demystifying the difference between accessibility and inclusion and explaining how they are different but need to be thought of in conjunction with each other
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Assistive Technology in the Workplace

In This Blog: Assistive technology consists of systems and equipment; including physical devices and software. They are designed to maintain or increase performance for disabled...
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What Do You Call a Disabled Person

In this blog: The question: What Do You Call a Disabled Person is a fairly popular one. People often struggle to engage with disabled people...
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Disability Language: How To Talk About Disability

In This Blog: disability language can be hard to get one’s head around. One reason for this is because language surrounding disability is so fluid...
DISABILITY AWARENESS TRAINING BENEFITS

Disability Awareness Training Benefits

In This Blog: there are many benefits to disability awareness training. Within this blog, we have listed just 7 of these and the ways to...

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