Disability Awareness Training

Disability Shetland can hold training sessions for businesses on Disability Awareness.  The training session will be tailored to the businesses needs and the time committment is approximately 1.5 hours. 

The aims of the generic training are as follows:-

1. Challenge your perceptions of disability

2. Promotion of inclusive thinking

3. Remove the unease when communicating with people who have a disability

For more details about the training please contact us.

Shetland Recreational Trust Trains Staff in Disability Awareness

A business that has undertaken our Disability Awareness Training includes the Shetland Recreational Trust (SRT).  The SRT have undertaken the training over the past 6 months in all of their leisure centres throughout Shetland.  A spokesperson from the Shetland Recreational Trust said "The feedback from the staff that have completed the training has been very positive and hopefully they can use what they have learned to ensure that we as an organisation can continue to deliver the best possible service to our users."

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Trainees comments after completion of the Disability Awareness Training:-

"Better understanding of how to approach people with different disabilities"

"Thought the disability awareness training was very useful and appropriate to my job"

"Feel more confident about approaching and talking to a person with a disability - very interesting"

"The training was very useful and I enjoyed it"

"Got the mind thinking a bit more on what I say when I approach a person with special needs and how I interact with a carer as well - enjoyed it"

"Very useful - helpful to encourage staff to think about real life day to day matters and how we can improve things"