Disability awareness helps us recognize and challenge unfair attitudes and behaviors and create a world where everyone feels accepted and included. By understanding different needs and perspectives, we can work together to build a community that values and supports everyone, regardless of their abilities. This course will provide the tools you need to properly interact with people with disabilities and foster a more inclusive workplace and community.
Features of the course include:
- Practical applications and methods for understanding the varied experiences of people with disabilities.
- Respect and inclusion for persons with invisible disabilities.
- Proper etiquette around persons with service animals.
- An understanding that all disabilities are not the same and that persons with disabilities are competent and aspire to live independently.
- Skills to evaluate text and images that represent stereotypical disabilities and how they impact people’s perceptions of disability.
- Focus on basic inclusion methods, accommodations, and equal opportunity.
- Introduction to Federal laws, including the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- Training in using Person First Language and Identity First Language for day-to-day interactions.
