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Disability Awareness Training

Course Description

Our trainers provide advice, support, consultancy and training in issues related to disability equality.

The course covers a broad perspective centred on equal access for disabled people to society and provides a good grounding for understanding and supporting the needs of disabled people.

Course Contents

The course includes the following topics.

• Preferred model of disability - Social model of disability.
• Traditional models of disability - Medical/individual and Charity models of disability.
• Perceptions of disability verses the reality.
• Ways of thinking about reasonable adjustment, Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
• Disability and the inclusive environment.
• Disabled people and their access to goods and services.