Join us for 'Disability 101: Disability Unpacked,' a comprehensive training designed to educate corporate teams on disability awareness, inclusion, and best practices. Enhance your understanding and foster an inclusive workplace culture. Perfect for National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). Elevate your company's commitment to diversity and accessibility."
Join our dynamic training on becoming a Disability Champion within your organization. Gain practical insights and strategies to foster an inclusive workplace, champion accessibility, and support colleagues with disabilities. Perfect for NDEAM, this session empowers you to lead inclusivity initiatives and drive meaningful change.
Enhance your employee training opportunities with our expert-led session on Disability Employment Policies in the USA. Gain insights into legal frameworks, inclusive hiring practices, and fostering workplace accessibility. Join us for National Disability Employment Awareness Month to champion diversity, equity, and inclusion in your organization.
– Understanding Ability vs. Disability
– Definitions and concepts
– Spectrum of ability
– What is Disability?
– Examples of abilities (e.g., Shohei Ohtani, Lady Gaga, Stephen Hawking)
– Society’s perception of disability
– The Choice is Ours
– Focusing on what people can do rather than what they cannot
– Three Simple Ways to Treat Persons With Disabilities
– Use People-First Language
– Focus on “Can Do”
– Provide People Access to Opportunity【10:0†Disability Employment overview
– 4 Eras of Disability “Policy”
– 1776 – 1900: Founding to Turn of 20th Century
– 1900 – 1960: Civil War Fallout to WWII
– 1960 – 1990: Civil Rights to ADA
– 1990 – Present: ADAAA to WIOA
– Key Historical Milestones
– 1798: First military disability law
– 1829: Louis Braille invents raised point alphabet
– 1864: Gallaudet University authorized to grant college degrees
– 1935: Social Security Act
– 1965: Social Security Amendments Act establishing Medicare and Medicaid
– Motivation & Inspiration
– Overcoming Adversity
– Recognizing and accepting interconnections
– Shaping Our Future Workforce
– Impact of AI on employment
– Ensuring equal access and equity
– Three Simple Takeaways to Treat Persons With Disabilities
– Use People-First Language
– Focus on “Can Do”
– Provide Access to Opportunity
Each presentation can be given in 45 minute, 60 minute, 75 minute or 90 minute increments. The presentations can be combined and tailored to meet the length/timing needs of your organization and/or event. Also, presentations can be given in-person, virtual or hybrid.
David D'Arcangelo is one of America's preeminent experts on disability. Legally blind from an early age, David's experience includes impressive careers in both the public and private sectors.
David has served as a Presidential appointee, Gubernatorial appointee, elected official and business professional and is known for his innovative ideas. His public service includes being a catalyst for groundbreaking and transformative projects that led to increased independence and self-determination for people with disabilities.
His private sector experience involves corporate turnarounds and creative campaigns. David's personal story is an American original that is unique and truly inspirational.
Dahlia Shaewitz brings more than 25 years of experience leading complex projects and large teams of experts in policy, practice, and research in the areas of disability, adult literacy, and special education. She is an expert in knowledge translation—helping both researchers and end users to understand and effectively communicate the information that can have a positive impact on our lives.
Ms. Shaewitz has been instrumental in creating new portfolios of work that improve employment outcomes for youth and adults with disabilities. She co-authored a series of research briefs that use descriptive data to highlight the policy and practice changes needed to improve economic independence for people with disabilities.
Ali Ingersoll is a Corporate Disability Inclusion Consultant, Ms. Wheelchair America 2023, keynote public speaker, TEDx Speaker, writer, and financial assets trader.
Ali’s professional passion lies in coaching organizations on how to strategically create and implement disability inclusive policies and practices within organizations from C-suite leaders to employee resource groups. She accomplishes this through teaching how to minimize bias, increase advocacy, accountability, access, and inclusion internally.
She believes it’s important to band together as one in order to affect the greatest change on the national stage and in local communities.
