OBJECTIVE
While providing goods and services, it is highly likely that there will be interactions with people with varying disabilities. It is important to have a solid foundation of awareness and understanding of different types of disabilities in order to fully support and engage your audience. This module provides participants with a detailed breakdown of the various types and classifications of disabilities, including physical, sensory, cognitive, and mental health-related disabilities. This module will review commonly used terminology, and explain how individuals with disabilities may identify, associate, and describe their condition.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Understand the identification of disabilities
- Develop knowledge of the 4 classifications of disabilities
- Recognize terminology surrounding disabilities
- Learn that no matter the individual or their disability, people have a right to goods and services
LEARNING BREAKDOWN
Length: 60 mins (does not include check points or knowledge check)
2.1 Identification, and classification of disability
- Statistics Canada’s stats on self identification of disability, and the 10 identified types of disabilities
- The 10 types of disabilities could be further grouped into 4 classifications (physical, sensory, cognitive, and mental health-related)
2.2 Disability Characteristics
- Defining visible vs invisible disabilities
- Defining stigma of disability
- Disability and intersectionality
- Describing disability levels (mild, moderate, severe, very severe)
- Discussing disability onset, length, symptom pattern
- Adjustment to disability
2.3 Understanding Physical Disabilities
- Defining physical disability
- Discussing the 4 sub-categories of physical disabilities, which includes pain-related, flexibility, mobility, and dexterity related disabilities
- Examples of common physical disabilities
- Review of terminology associated with physical disabilities
2.4 Understanding Sensory Disabilities
- Defining sensory disabilities
- Understanding visual disabilities
- Review of terminology associated with visual disabilities and common ways a visual disability may be described or referred to
- Examples of common visual disabilities
- Understanding hearing disabilities
- Common ways a person with a hearing disability may identify themselves
- Understanding the meaning of degrees of hearing loss
- Examples of common causes of hearing loss
- Dual-sensory loss
- Defining dual-sensory loss and deafblindness
- Examples of common causes of dual-sensory loss
- Types of communication methods
2.5 Understanding Cognitive Disabilities
- Defining cognitive disabilities
- Discussion of the 3 sub-categories of cognitive disabilities, including learning, memory, and developmental
- Common terminology associated with cognitive disabilities
- Review of the 3 levels of cognitive severity
- Examples of common causes of cognitive disabilities
2.6 Understanding Mental Health-Related Disabilities
- Distinguishing between mental health problems and mental health-related disability
- Defining mental health
- Review of different types of mental illnesses
- Examples of mental health-related disabilities
- Statistics
