disability training - d4 - raising disability awareness

Disability Training

The greatest impact of our training is that it is delivered by disabled people who live the life and are the best people on the subject of disability-linked issues. Our team of accredited trainers deliver high quality courses to a variety of voluntary, public and private/commercial sectors.

Programme outline:

• Introduction
• What is disability - Hidden or visible?
• Communication skills
• Understanding Access Issues
• Raising Sensory loss awareness
• The DDA (1994)

We run bespoke training sessions that can be tailored to the needs of the client and can vary from a full to half day session. Max number(s) for our course are 20 people. We will either come to an accessible venue of your choice or you can come to our onsite training room. We also have our own half day Disability Awareness training sessions that run throughout the year please see the dates below.

Course dates for 2010:

• Wednesday 24th March
• Tuesday 20th April
• Thursday 13th May
• Thursday 24th June
• Monday 26th July
• Monday 27th September
• Wednesday 27th October
• Monday 22nd November

All these courses run from 10.00-13.00 with Prices at £67 per person. (please ask for consessions)

We are hoping to be starting diversity courses, shortly, please keep an eye on the website for more details.

Attending one of our training courses will not only give you a huge amount of understanding towards disabled people it will also make you aware of your responsibilities under the Disability Discrimination Act (2005) and how you can make reasonable adjustment to satisfy the acts recommendations and create an inclusive service.

If you require something else that is not mentioned here or would like more information about training, contact us and we will do our best to help.

We asked the trainers at Living Options Devon to run workshops for our "All Staff Training Day" to raise awareness of inclusion issues but also, importantly, to enable people to see how they could take personal action. The day took place in an outdoor environment - a tall order which was delivered professionally by very engaging and knowledgeable trainers whose infectious enthusiasm inspired our staff. Evaluations at the end of the day were glowing but more significantly the anecdotal feedback on return to work showed just how much impact the trainers from Living Options Devon had on peoples' understanding of and responses to disability awareness.

Orlando Rutter, Dartmoor National Park Authority