Disability inclusion workshop
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This interactive session will cover all the main issues to bear in mind for making your organisation an inclusive place, including:• language
• visual impairment
• hearing impairment
• wheelchair users
• learning disability
• etiquette
The cost of the session is £5 LDCVS members, £10 non-members.
Session leader Ollie Flitcroft is a wheelchair user and has been disabled all his life. He has worked in the third sector for over 25 years, supporting organisations and groups including fundraising to help them to develop.
With his passion for disability equality, he has designed and delivered training sessions on disability rights and inclusion, disability awareness/equality and has been instrumental in developing policy and advice to a range of organisations in the third, private and public sectors. He has a thorough understanding and practical knowledge in the field of access and inclusion and has undertaken a wide range of access audits.
In this training session participants will explore various impairments and the challenges faced by disabled people on a daily basis . We’ll talk about language and how this can have a negative and positive impact on disabled people . Ollie will also discuss a little about his own experiences as a disabled person and the challenges he has hd to overcome . The session will be interactive , and you will have the opportunity to debate and discus issues around disability equality.
Date
Tuesday 21 January 2025 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (UTC+00)Location
Christ Church
Wyresdale Road, Lancaster, LA1 3EA
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