Working with People with Disabilities

By Gini Graham Scott

This is a complete step-by-step guide for conducting a 1-2 day workshop on how to work with people with disabilities. The book includes information on better understanding, communicating, and working with anyone with a disability, along with a series of simulations and games to offer a hands-on experience that will provide opportunities for reflection and discussion.

The program is designed especially for the officers and managers of corporations, small business, and non-profits and their employees. It can be adapted for working with employees who are already hired or new hires.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gini Graham Scott
• Release date: Jul 8, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311445667

Gini Graham Scott

Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D., CEO of Changemakers Publishing and Writing, is an internationally known writer, speaker, and workshop leader. She has published over 50 books with major publishers on various topics and has written over 3 dozen children's books. Her published children's books include Katy's Bow, Scratches, The Crazy Critters First Visit, and Where's the Avocado? published by Black Rose Writing. She has published 8 children's books through her company Changemakers Kids and is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She does workshops on self-publishing and creativity. She also helps clients write books as a ghostwriter and self-publish or find publishers and agents. Her websites are www.changemakerspublishgandwriting.com and www.ginigrahamscott.com.

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Working with People with Disabilities

A Workshop on How to Better Understand, Communicate, and Work with Anyone with a Disability

By Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D.

Changemakers Publishing and Writing

750 La Playa, #952 . San Francisco, CA 94121

www.changemakerspublishingandwriting.com

Working with People with Disabilities

Copyright © 2015 by Gini Graham Scott

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction (PPT-1)

Structure of the Workshop

Initial Assessment

Welcome to the Workshop

Introduction to the Topics to Be Covered (PPT-2 and 3)

Goals for the Training (PPT-4)

Objectives for the Training (PPT-5)

An Overview of the Workshop Environment and Schedule (PPT-6)

Guidelines for Participating in the Workshop (PPT-7)

Introducing Yourself (PPT-8)

Your Organization’s, Professional, or Personal Mission, Vision and Values (PPT-9)

Part II: Understanding Disabilities (PTT-10)

The Concept of Social Justice (PPT-11)

Defining Disability (PPT-12)

Types of Disabilities (PPT-13)

The History of Treatment of People with Disabilities (PPT-14)

The Disability Rights Movement (PPT-15)

Laws Protecting People with Disabilities (PPT-16)

The Growing Awareness of and Acceptance of People with Disabilities (PPT-17)

Discussion about Learnings and Applications for Segment II (PPT-18)

Awareness of Disabilities at Lunch (PPT-19)

Part III: Experiencing Disabilities (PPT-20)

Debriefing about Lunch Experience (PPT-21)

Imagining a Disability – and How to Deal with It (PPT-22)

Discussing the Experience of Noticing Your Other Abilities (PPT-23)

Playing the Employment Game – as an Employer and an Employee (PPT-24)

Discussion about the Employment Game Experience (PPT-25)

Part IV: Interacting and Communicating with People with Disabilities (PPT-26)

Observing an Interaction with a Person with a Disability (PPT-27)

The Key Rules for Communicating with a Person with a Disability (PPT-28)

Part V: The Many Voices of Disability (PPT-29)

The Many Voices of Disability Videos (PPT-30)

Part VI: Understanding the Culture of Disability (PPT-31)

Videos Featuring the Culture of Disability (PPT-32)

The Role of the Media in Contributing to the Culture of Disability (PPT-33)

Part VII: Becoming an Ally and Offering Support (PPT-34)

Videos on Becoming an Ally and Offering Support (PPT-35)

How to Help As an Ally or Supporter (PPT-36)

Part VIII: References and Resources (PPT-37)

Part IX: Putting It All Together (PPT-38)

Learnings and Applications from the Workshop (PPT-39)

Evaluating the Workshop (PPT-40)

Final Networking (PPT-41)

Appendixes - Forms and Guidelines (PPT-42)

A-1 - Initial Assessment

A-2 – Schedule for 2-Day Workshop

A-3 – Imagining a Disability Guidelines

A-4 – Disability Cards

A-5 – Industry Cards

A-6 – List of Ways to Assist as an Ally or Supporter

A-7 – Plan of Action for Assisting as an Ally or Supporter

A-8 – References and Resources

References

Resources

Websites on Disabilities

A-9 – Workshop Evaluation Questionnaire

Part I: Introduction (PPT-1)

This training manual has been developed for conducting a workshop for the officers and managers of corporations, small businesses, and non-profits and their employees, to help them better understand how to work with and provide employment opportunities for employees with a disability. It can be adapted for working with employees who are already hired or for new hires.

The program is designed to provide both information and a series of simulations and games to offer a hands-on experience that will provide opportunities for reflection and discussion. It is supplemented by a PowerPoint presentation, which begins with the Title Page (PPT-1) on the screen.

The 16-hour workshop can be conducted as a complete program during a two-day training or it can be divided into a series of separate modules that can be presented as four half-day programs or five 3 1/2 hour programs. These alternatives are provided to accommodate different types of work settings.

The target students are leaders or employees in companies with 10 or more employees or organizations with more than 10 participating members to provide a large enough group for conducting a workshop. However, leaders, employees, and members of smaller organizations might be combined into a larger group for a workshop. The program can be adapted for any age group, whether or not the participants have worked with people with disabilities. he information can also be applied outside one’s own organization to include any kind of contact with people with disabilities.

Where the topics for this program are included on PowerPoint slides, they are indicated next to the subhead for that topic in parenthesis as PPT-1 (Title Page), PPT-2, PPT-3, and so on.

Structure of the Workshop

The workshop will combine a mixture of lecture using PowerPoint slides, video presentations, visualization and journeying, experiential exercises, simulation games, reflection on the material presented, discussion with other participants, and sharing with the group as a whole. The presenter will act as the facilitator in leading the exercises and group discussion. The presenter will use the feedback sessions to assess student learning, clarify student comments, and provide additional lecture or experiential material as needed to help students acquire key learning points. To promote student interest and involvement, the presenter will show