This highly requested workshop has attendees explore and exercise best practices and tips for engaging with people with all types of disabilities in both personal and professional settings.

Using mini-lectures, videos, and case studies, participants will be able to:

• Articulate the importance of and difference between ‘person-first’ and ‘identity-first’ language
• Demonstrate related language do’s and don’ts
• Describe basic norms for interacting with co-workers with specific types of disabilities including apparent disabilities such as vision, hearing, and mobility impairments as well as mental health, learning, and other non-apparent disabilities
• Practice positive and effective strategies for handling diverse situations, offering to help, and avoiding unintentional offense

Lead by Bonnie Rivers, Director of Employee Relations at Work Without Limits and sponsored by the Arlington Disability Commission. 

Please Register.