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Our custom designed disability awareness e-Learning courses are created to your requirements with bespoke content, specifically for your organisation. Our team of experts will partner with you to create outcome focused disability awareness e learning programmes which will be highly motivating, engaging and informative.
- Videos of disabled people sharing their experiences and providing solutions
- Animations/ graphics to demonstrate abstract concepts and reinforce key messages
- Written information in palatable bite sized chunks
- Audio clips to assist aural learners
- Interactive activities to ensure learners can apply knowledge to their own work streams
- Social learning and gamification to engage and motivate learners
- Summative and formative assessments.
eLearning FAQs
The social model of disability is a philosophy which states that people are disabled by barriers in society rather than their impairment or difference. Imagine if everyone could use sign language. If our environment was set up with visual alerts and processes were inclusive, a profoundly deaf British Sign Language user would have the same access as everyone else. The social model of disability helps us to recognise barriers that make life harder for disabled people and removing them creates equality. Barriers tend to be either environmental, attitudinal or organisational. We often teach about this model within our training sessions.
There are lots of different factors to consider when recruiting, for example where do you advertise your job vacancies? Are your adverts accessible and encouraging disabled people to apply? Does your brand image demonstrate a positive attitude to equality and diversity? To find out more about creating an accessible recruitment process and discuss how we can support you, get in touch
It’s important not to make assumptions that just because someone is disabled, they will need a lot of extra support and resources. Did you know that only 4% of reasonable adjustments (changes made to a workplace to support disabled people) had a financial implication? Even then there are grants that can be used to support an employer with the cost. Reasonable adjustments can be very simple and effective for example, a larger screen or a quiet room to make calls. It’s important to have an honest and open conversation with a disabled employee about what adjustments might need to be made. If the correct reasonable adjustments are made it’s likely that a disabled employee will be able to get on with the job at hand. Many organisations benefit from having training around reasonable adjustments to help them understand what they are and how to implement them.
It’s normal to feel overwhelmed if this topic is new to you. Organisations are often made to feel they should understand disability but if you’ve never had training, of course it feels like a minefield.
We believe the key to disability equality lies within education and suggest the best place to start is to contact us for an informal chat. Most likely we’ll suggest beginning with a general disability awareness session. It covers and provides potential solutions for the following topics:
- An overview of disability
- Understanding what disability is
- The barriers that disabled people may face at work or accessing your organisation or services.
After an initial overview session, you’ll then be ready to move on to more specific areas, for example creating an accessible recruitment process.
Disabled people make up 20% of the UK population, so the likelihood is that you are employing disabled people. Disability is not always visible examples being epilepsy or Crohn’s Disease. Employees do not always disclose to their employer that they are disabled. There can be numerous reasons for this including they don’t consider themselves as disabled or worry about being treated differently. There are a number of processes you can implement to support all your employees regardless of whether they are disabled. You can also encourage disclosure by creating an inclusive culture within your organisation. Watch our video and read our blog for a few tips and contact us to find out more
