Disability Awareness

Disability awareness is critical to understanding the challenges that a person may face while experiencing disabilities. Understanding the challenges reduces stigma around disability, creates empathy, and fosters respect. This training program will focus on the following topics.

• What is an intellectual disability, physical disability, or impairment.
• Causes, characteristics, and impact of some common disabilities or impairments such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down Syndrome, physical disability, hearing and visual impairment, and Oppositional Defiant Disorder.
• Communicating with a person experiencing disability.