Disability Awareness Courseware and Training Materials

What's included?
What’s included?
Available for delivery as a download from our web server or provided on CD, this courseware package includes the following resources to make your trainer’s life much, much easier.

This courseware package includes:

	Student Manual. Fully customisable. May be opened in any wordprocessor and changed to meet your exact needs.
	Trainer manual. Fully customisable with additional information for trainers.
	Ice breakers and class activities. Fully customisable. Delivered as a folder full of activities for your students.
	Pre-assignment exercise. Fully customisable. Helps to reinforce the delegates understanding of the course contents.
	Content overview. Fully customisable. Comprehensive course overview to help you market your course to your customers.
	PowerPoint presentations. Fully customisable. Complete set of PowerPoint slides for use by the trainer.
	Sales information sheets. Fully customisable. Information sheets to help you sell your course to your employees or external customers.
	Additional reading… Fully customisable. Give your students some recommended further reading materials for this course.

To get started, just open this ‘Disability Awareness’ training courseware in your favourite word processor. You can fully customise the materials to suit your exact learning needs and include your own branding. Your own tailor-made course, delivered ‘off-the-peg’ and saving you thousands of pounds in development time and man-hours. Just press print and the perfect learning experience is yours to deliver.

Course outline
Course outline

Introduction

Disability awareness is an essential topic for today’s workplaces, where you are not just obligated to look at opportunities for existing staff who become disabled, but you will need to consider the value and untapped expertise in disabled persons who you can hire. This content-rich two-day courseware from the Courseware Company offers you material focused on the misconceptions and positive realities of hiring people with disabilities; how to conduct fair job interviews; why it makes good business sense to hire people with disabilities; the cornerstones to diversity; and much more.

Target audience

Our courseware is primarily purchased by five types of trainer; HR managers, corporate trainers, private training firms, educational institutions, or private consultants. The target audience varies on the instructor and the type of training required by a particular organization.

The students for this course are usually training staff or managers involved in training.

Course contents

• Course Overview You will spend the first part of the day getting to know participants and discussing what will take place during the workshop. Students will also have an opportunity to identify their personal learning objectives.
• Defining Terms To start, participants will learn what the terms “disabilities” and “stereotypes” mean.
• Misconceptions and Realities There are plenty of misconceptions, as well as realities, to working with people with disabilities. We’ll explore some of those in this session
• A Business Case In this session, participants will complete a case study to explore why companies should hire people with disabilities.
• Dissecting Labels This session will discuss why labels are inappropriate and how they can make people feel. We will also provide participants with some ground rules for being respectful and using appropriate language, as well as how to be practical when discussing a disability. Several lists of inappropriate terms and more appropriate language will be provided
• Accessibility Accessibility refers to making your workplace, and your business, available to people. Although laws differ between regions, this session will cover some basics of physical accessibility. Attitudinal barriers will also be discussed.
• The Cornerstones of Diversity Diversity experts Armida Russell, Amy Tolbert, and Frank Wilderman have identified four cornerstones of diversity development. They are knowledge, acceptance, understanding, and behavior. We will examine each cornerstone in detail during this session.
• Encouraging Diversity by Hiring This session will address two key hiring issues: what can the company ask, and what can the candidate expect?
• Using the STOP Technique Diversity expert Lenora Billings-Harris has developed a four-step technique that you can use when someone is behaving in an inappropriate manner. It’s called STOP! Participants will learn about the technique through a lecture and will then practice it in a role play
• Communication Essentials for Disability Awareness In this session, we will talk about respecting confidentiality, preparing documentation, and where to find good resources.
• Communication Styles This session will allow participants to take a more objective look at the advantages and disadvantages of both sides of different dichotomies related to communication styles.
• Critical Conversations Next, we will give participants a framework for discussing disabilities. We will include specific questions that are appropriate for gathering information without infringing on an employee’s rights
• How Do We Make It Happen? To wrap up the course, we will explore how you can use accommodation and job shadowing to create a truly accessible workplace
• Workshop Wrap-Up At the end of the course, students will have an opportunity to ask questions and fill out an action plan

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