just like to point out that to meet your Disability Equality Duty as a public authority under the 2005 DDA you should start with Disability Equality Training using a disabled person who is a qualified DE Trainer - then at least you would avoid using the term 'disabilities' when you mean impairments and would know that Ddeaf people use this spelling to indicate that some Ddeaf people consider themselves not as disabled people but as members of a linguistic minority. Disability Awareness Training has tended to be Medical Model based and used offensive training methods like simulation training. If you google disability equality training rather than awareness you get more accurate results.
Vin West
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On 6 Apr 2010, at 16:19, Alyson Matthews wrote:
> Not really a building issue, but a disability one.
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> I work for a local authority, and we co-ordinate the provision of basic disability awareness training for council employees - e.g. deaf awareness, visual impairment awareness, learning difficulty awareness and so on.
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> We have been asked to provide some basic training in more specific disabilities, in addition. The ones mentioned were cancer and MS, although we would be willing to run any disability-related training on a pilot basis.
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> Does anyone know of any training providers in the West Midlands area who provide this sort of training? I have tried Googling, but haven't found anything. We are only looking for 1/2 day courses, 3 hours at most.
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> Thanks
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