Disability Competencies

Most Requested Content

Accessible Meetings, Events, and Conferences (July 2015)

http://www.adahospitality.org/accessible-meetings-events-conferences-guide/book
by June Isaacson Kailes and Darrell Jones

Effectively Including People with Disabilities in Policy and Advisory Groups (Edition 2, 2012)

Effectively Including People (pdf)
Effectively Including People (doc)

Language Is More than a Trivial Concern! (2010)

Language (pdf)
by June Isaacson Kailes

Time to Get Rid of “Special”? (1991)

Special (docx)
by John R. Woodward, M.S.W.

Tips for Interacting with People with Disabilities (2011)

Tips For Interacting (pdf)
Tips for Interacting (doc)
by June Isaacson Kailes

And more…

Disability Simulation Exercises

Disability Simulation (docx)
The goal of disability stimulations is typically to teach about how people with disabilities and use the environment and technology, and to build understanding regarding the importance of accessibility. What happens: pity, fear, feeling fortunate not to have a disability, believing disability is hard and frustrating. “You wouldn’t ask a person to pretend to be African-American or gay, so why is it OK to have someone put on a blindfold and think that they can understand what it is like to be blind?” says Kathy Martinez, disability rights advocate.

You and I

YOU AND I (docx)
by Elaine Popovich