Disability Awareness Education

Organisations that have contact with people with disabilities on any level will benefit from Scope's Disability Awareness Training, which equips their staff, volunteers or members to communicate and interact appropriately with people who have disabilities.

Our audiences tell us that disability awareness training, when delivered by someone with a disability, is a powerful experience. Scope's Disability Educators, who have lived with their disability all their lives, have had years of training experience and have all completed either Cert 3 in Business or Cert 4 in Training. The Disability Educator works alongside their co-facilitator, who is another highly experienced professional in the field of disability, to deliver high quality training. They talk openly about what it is like to live with a disability, and will answer just about any question an audience can throw at them.

Together they support participants to develop a better understanding of people with disabilities. Participants leave the training equipped with the confidence and tools needed to make their next interaction with a person with disabilities a positive one. The key aim is for people to feel more confident finding out from individuals about how they would like to be treated.

Our training packages:

• Promote an understanding of issues surrounding disability.
• Encourage participants to focus on the individual, not the disability.
• Develop confidence interacting with people who have a disability.
• Explore facts, fears and myths about disability.
• Offer experiences of living with a disability.
• Outline key elements of good communication.
• Inform about appropriate terminology and language.

The participants experience a person with a disability and a person without a disability working and chatting comfortably together, involving the audience in enlightening discussions and taking them through activities which give them a practical insight into the experience of disability. The feedback from this combination of theory and practice is consistently positive.

A standard training package of 2 to 2.5 hours is available for a set fee, or you can discuss your individualised training needs with the Coordinator Annie Millar by email or phone on (03) 9843 2061.