CAN (LET’S) enjoys hearing feedback from workshop participants. The following are comments from a Disability Awareness workshop.
What aspects of the training worked for you the most?
- Clearly presented, well organized
- Comprehensive
- Understandable: matter-of-fact and very direct way of explaining
- Speaker’s discussion of their personal experiences
- Real world examples
- Clearly modelling best practices within the presentation style (content warning, verbal descriptions, etc)
- Equitable expectations in participatory requirements (cameras optional, breakouts as well)
- Breakout rooms, resources; being sent breakout room questions in advance.
- The comparison examples of what is said vs the best way to say it. Also, learning the new language to use.
- Perspectives about the range of disabilities, and realizing that there were some for which I was ignorant.
- The breakdown of different categories or ableism, specific examples (I’m going to find alternatives to saying xenophobia in my work now).
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I greatly appreciated that [CAN] (LET’S) used words to describe images and text on the screen to aid the vision impaired. Also the frank advice on how to talk about disability awareness, and practical steps to take immediately to improve discussions about disabilities both in and out of the workplace.