Celebrating Disability Blog
Welcome to our blog. Articles, tips and insights enabling you to transform your workplace into one that is inclusive of disabled customers, candidates and employees.
Disclosing a Disability – Why Disabled Employees Don’t
In This Blog: 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 encourage confidence to disclose Encouraging Discloser - Why It Matters A few reasons would include:...
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 due to fear of offending. Here's what you can do... Sounds like the start of a very bad joke, doesn’t it? What Do You Call a...
Creating An Accessible Event
In this blog: What to do to create an event that is successfully accessible and inclusive for disabled people. Helping disabled people to feel valued and welcome Why Create An Accessible Event With 1 in 5 people in the UK being disabled, it is likely the 1 in 5...
Hiring Disabled Employees: 5 Reasons You Should
In this blog: We explore 5 main reasons that show how hiring disabled employees can benefit business and look at case studies from companies in America who are making it a success. We all agree that everyone has an equal right to employment. For years, employers have...
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 and what was the common term from 30 years ago, may not be the common time today. This blog will help to get to grips...
Disability Inclusion – I Did Something
In this blog: When promoting disability inclusion, it's important to be consider as many factors as possible. Here are some tips to get you started. Quick Links: Planning for the majority Captioning services Think about access requirements Looking deeper Setting the...
Recruiting Disabled People Into The Workplace
In this blog: A few quick tips to help you be successful when thinking about recruiting disabled people in the workplace. Field of Dreams Recruiting disabled people into the workplace is a bit like that Kevin Costner film. You know the one with the line: “if you build...
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 harness these benefits within your organisation Disability awareness and inclusion training can often take a backseat to other...
The Business Case for Disability Inclusion
The business case for disability inclusion in the workplace is a strong one. Within the sector of disability inclusion, you do not have to go far to hear a disability expert talk about how supporting disabled people to achieve in the workplace has nothing but...
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’. It doesn’t specifically refer to only disabled people - although most of the time it is assumed so. Accessible design is about creating a...
An Unexpected Trip
Where My Journey Begins.... I recently attended an event in London. The details about where the event was held were quite sketchy. Once I arrived at the event, I realised that this was because the event was internal and therefore probably didn’t need to be more...
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. When working in the disability charity sector, I was constantly perplexed by the terms that were used to describe...
Becoming A Confident Business Owner
When developing my confidence as a new business owner, what I found most helpful was the experience that came with time. As a disabled business owner, there can be added barriers to navigate; sometimes due to perceptions and attitude and other times due to...
Using the experiences of disabled people to create a better service for everyone
Creating a better service for everyone On a personal note, there are so many occasions (about 4 or 5 a day) where I think “a disabled person was obviously not consulted when this was designed”. It’s so frustrating. It’s not only me who thinks this, just listen to the...
Disability Inclusion Training vs Disability Awareness
The Definition When researching disability awareness training, you may have come across different organisations describing their training as either inclusion or awareness. This may, on the surface, seem no more than a choice of language. For some trainers it may be...
