Disability Awareness Course
Course Aims:
- To understand what disability is and what causes it
- To understand the biomedical and social models and how this relates to working with people with physical and learning disabilities
- To understand the history of people with learning disabilities and the contrasting current values of care
- To explore how equal opportunities relates to physical and learning disability
Course Content:
- Myths and Stereotypes about Disability
- Working with Diversity and Anti-Discriminatory Practice
- Communication within the learning disabled field
- Politics of Disablement
- Disability - The Medical Care Model versus Social Care Model
- Historical background to Normalisation and Social role Valorisation.
- Rights of Disabled People
- Conflict of service user rights versus workers duty of care and service policy.
- Disability strategy - Towards Anti-Disableist Practice
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