In today’s diverse world, individuals with disabilities encounter challenges rooted in communication barriers and societal stigmatisation.
Disability awareness involves recognising and understanding these challenges, fostering a more inclusive society where people can flourish and actively contribute.
Becoming disability-aware serves as a catalyst for promoting equality. It is a commitment to acknowledging the rights of disabled individuals to access information, education, and services without encountering discrimination.
Who benefits from Disability Awareness?
Everyone does! The advantages extend far beyond the disabled community to encompass a broader societal impact. Deaf and disabled individuals themselves, along with their colleagues, family, and friends, reap the benefits. Educational institutions, workplaces, and service providers also experience positive outcomes. By collectively working towards disability awareness, we create an environment that champions equality and empowers everyone to engage comfortably and confidently in communication, irrespective of their hearing abilities.
During the session, you will learn the following:
- Facts and Figures
- The Importance of Access
- Legislation
- Best Practice Language
- The Models of Disability
- Physical Disability
- Visual Impairment
- Speech Impairment
- Mental health
- Deaf Awareness
- Some BSL!
This course is ideal for individuals, groups of friends, workplaces and community organisations.
This bespoke course can be tailored to your individual needs and include specialist training for your workplace.
About us
Complete Training is part of The Inclusivity Group. We are a company committed to providing inclusive and person-centred services to deaf, disabled and elderly individuals and the services that support them. We offer a range of courses that can raise awareness and broaden people’s knowledge and understanding of disability. As experts in the field of access, education, and communication, we can provide support within a variety of settings. Anything from festivals, to universities, theatres, conferences, planned and impromptu meetings. Over the last two months alone, Complete Training has trained over 100 people to create a more knowledgeable and inclusive world for all.
We have partnered with many companies to improve access to all, including:
- Theatre Royal Plymouth
- Digital 4
- Hall for Cornwall
- The Brewhouse
- Queen’s Theatre Barnstaple
- Exeter Corn Exchange
- Plymouth City Council
- The Box
And more!
Our Social ‘Give-Back’
A percentage of all our sales goes towards our social value and community give-back fund. This pot funds our free British Sign Language (BSL) tasters, free BSL Education signs for schools and youth groups and funded spots on our BSL courses, which you can find on our face-to-face page here.
So, by buying any of our courses, you are investing in your personal growth and getting involved in giving back to your community, for which we are incredibly grateful.
