Disclosing a Disability – Why Disabled Employees Don’t
There are many reasons why disabled people choose not to disclose a disability. The prevailing reason being fear of discrimination. Here are 7 ways to...
Category: Manager Confidence & Conversations
Manager confidence plays a key role in creating an inclusive workplace. This category explores how managers can build confidence when talking about disability, start conversations about reasonable adjustments, and respond appropriately to the needs of disabled employees. It covers how to approach these conversations in practice, remove uncertainty, and ensure that inclusion is applied consistently in day-to-day management.
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...
Understanding Disability Language
Disability language can be hard to get one's head around. One reason for this is because language surrounding disability is so fluid and what was...
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...
How To Make Your Business More Accessible
When you break down the term ‘accessibility’, You get the most straightforward definition in the word – the ‘ability’ to ‘access’. Accessible design doesn’t specifically...
The Insidious Result of Language
Language surrounding disability has always been a minefield To me, I have always been baffled over the complexity of what people make language to be....
Attracting Disabled Candidates
The Right Candidate When recruiting for a role, whether that role is paid or voluntary, full-time or part-time, you always want to make sure that...
Disabled Customers – Don’t Ignore Them
The importance of web accessibility to disabled customers I received an email the other day from a person I met at an exhibition. We had...
Disabled person vs. person with… The debate continues
The Context Over the last few months and throughout my career, there have been many conversations about whether the term “disabled people” should be utilised...
So Brave
There’s no getting away from the language used to describe disabled people. Before you read any further, have a think about the language that springs...