Disability Awareness & Inclusion, Part 2
Open to the UM Community
This guide expands the Part 1 Disability Awareness and Inclusion training into practical learning content. Participants will explore digital accessibility, physical accessibility, effective communication, and strategies to challenge ableist language and actions. The workshop will also include discussion sections where participants can reflect, ask questions, and apply concepts to real-world scenarios.
Learning Objectives:
-Apply core digital accessibility best practices to documents, slides, websites, media, and meetings.
-Recognize practical physical accessibility standards and inclusive space-planning choices.
-Use effective communication practices that support multiple ways of receiving and sharing information.
-Challenge ableist language, microaggressions, and inaccessible defaults with concrete scripts
-Navigate current Disability Equity Office services, resources, and request pathways.
Participants are strongly encouraged to complete Part 1 prior to engaging in this session. Part 1 will take place on July 9. Register.
American Sign Language (ASL) interpreting services and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) captioning services will be provided. If you need additional accommodations to participate in this webinar, please email the ADA Coordinator at [email protected].