Disability Awareness Training

This Disability Awareness Training Course will enable your managers and staff to understand the intricacies and business rationale of becoming a disability confident organisation.

Through this Disability Awareness Training Course, delegates will learn:

• Defining disability in the context of the workplace

      •   Definition of disability: Code of Good Practice: Disability
      •   Checking disability criteria: Examples
      •   The prevalence of disability: statistics and trends

• Code of Good Practice and Technical Assistance Guidelines

      •   Their purpose and inter-relationship with the EE Act
      •   An analysis of their content and role in guiding the process

• The business rationale for strategically recruiting persons with disabilities

      •   Removing the barriers and reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities
            –   Removing barriers and building in accommodation in the job profiling phase
            –   Removing barriers in the job advertising and interview phases
            –   Removing bias and prejudice in the assessment / skills testing phase
      •   Hiring the right person for the job
      •   Probation / Conditional job offer
      •   Sensitizing the organisation prior to placement
      •   Training and career advancement for persons with disabilities
      •   Retention of persons with disabilities through further reasonable accommodation
      •   Health, safety and working environment

• Building a disability-confident business and delivering change: 6 building blocks

      •   Building Block 1: Strategic benefits
      •   Building Block 2: Commercial benefits
      •   Building Block 3: Legal benefits
      •   Building Block 4: Societal benefits
      •   Building Block 5: Ethical benefits
      •   Building Block 6: Professional benefits

• Disability Etiquette

      •   Basic disability etiquette when interacting with any person who has a disability
      •   Specific disability etiquette
            –   People in wheelchairs or mobility devices or who have loss of limbs
            –   People who are blind
            –   People who are deaf or have a hearing loss
            –   People with speech disabilities
            –   People with other disabilities (e.g. cerebral palsey, multiple sclerosis, etc.)

• Confidentiality and disclosure of information

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