Main Overview
Awareness that leads to inclusion.
This outcome-focused session on General Disability Awareness is designed to be an overview of disability awareness. This makes it a great place to start when thinking about disability training and developing a culture that includes disabled people.
Disability awareness and inclusion is still a relatively unknown and untapped business area. It is not uncommon for organisations to have the right attitude but struggle to understand how to implement strategies to ensure disabled people feel included.
Many of the barriers that disabled people face in achieving are contained in the biases of others. Biases can prevent delegates from speaking to disabled people, often stemming from a desire not to offend. We will take a look at language and how it informs our perceptions and biases of others.
We can then look at how this relates to disabled people. Using our new knowledge, we will look at some common phrases and terms that are associated with describing disabled people and disability and explore whether we feel these are appropriate or what can be used instead.
The social model of disability hypothesises that it is not an impairment that disables a person but the environment in which they live. Exploring this theory in more detail will help delegates to understand how subtle and not-so-subtle barriers are erected and prevent disabled people from feeling included in everyday life. Once these barriers are understood, we will explore ways of mitigating them within organisations so that disabled people can participate and feel engaged and welcomed actively.
All Celebrating Disability training sessions are outcome-focused. We would like to work with you to understand your goals for disability inclusion so that we can tailor the session to meet these goals and outcomes.
To embed learning, tailored fictional case study scenario-based exercises will be used to ensure that the ideas presented are tangible and realistic.
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Session Details
Length: Half Day
Size: Maximum 20 delegates.
Venue: Sessions can be delivered virtually or in person.
As a result of this session, delegates will learn the following:
- Social model of disability
- Language, etiquette and communication
- Barriers faced by disabled people
- What disability is and is not
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I would love to talk to you about where you are and your ambitions for your disability inclusion journey