Disability Awareness Training

Training details

The Disability Awareness Training is a full-day workshop offering practical insights into the realities of living with severe disabilities. This training equips attendees with knowledge and understanding of different types of disability and its impact and how to better support individuals with disabilities in everyday life.
 

This full day of training is broken down into three workshops:

• Visual Impairment Awareness and Sighted Guiding (2 hours)
• Physical Disability Awareness Training (90 mins)
• The Emotional Impact of Disability Workshop (90 mins)

Who should attend?
This course is open to all. 

Trainer Details

Phoebe Gibbons

• Founder at 3DOM and Inclusion
• Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Co-ordinator at Active Oxfordshire
• GB Wheelchair Rugby Player

Nathan Matthews-Tree

• Community Engagement Lead at MyVision Oxfordshire
• Trustee at Active Oxfordshire
• Blind Ice Hockey Player

What will I learn?

• Visual Impairment Awareness and Sighted Guiding
• What is visual impairment and its effects.
• Equipment and adaptations
• Communications and guiding
• Physical Disability Awareness Training
• What is Physical Disability
• How living with Physical Disability affects people
• Adaptations and workarounds for daily tasks
• The Emotional Impact of Disability Workshop
• How living with disability affects mental health
• How the public can affect the experiences of people livening with disability
• Tips on supporting the mental health of those living with disability
• How to get it right/ wrong

Cost:

£100 per person for OCVA Members
£115 per person from a charitable organisation who are not OCVA members
£130 per person from a non-charitable organisation

Time:
10 am – 4 pm Breaks and a lunch break are included (please bring your own lunch).

Course venue:
The Source,
Floyd’s Row,
Oxford OX1 1SS

Details of getting into Oxford by bus, cycle, car or train can be found here. Please note there is no parking at the venue. 

Click on 'Book Now' at the bottom of this page to book your place. If the event is fully booked, please register to add your name to the waiting list. 

If you are booking on behalf of another/others, you must have their names and email addresses ready. If they do not have an email address, please contact us by emailing training@ocva.org.uk or by calling us on 01865 251946.