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    Working with People with Disabilities
    Working with People with Disabilities
    Working with People with Disabilities
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    Working with People with Disabilities

    By Gini Graham Scott PhD

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    This is a complete step-by-step guide for conducting a 1-2 day workshop on how to work with people with disabilities.  The book includes information on better understanding, communicating, and working with anyone with a disability, along with a series of simulations and games to offer a hands-on experience that will provide opportunities for reflection and discussion.  It additionally includes a PowerPoint presentation. 

    The program is designed especially for the officers and managers of corporations, small business, and non-profits and their employees.  It can be adapted for working with employees who are already hired or new hires.  

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGini Scott
    Release dateNov 3, 2015
    ISBN9781519995605
    Working with People with Disabilities
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    Gini Graham Scott PhD

    Gini Graham Scott is a screenplay writer, executive producer, and TV game show developer, plus a nonfiction writer who has published over 200 books, 50 for traditional publishers and 150 for her own company Changemakers Publishing. She also writes, reviews, and ghostwrites scripts and books for clients. She has written scripts for 20 feature films and has written and executive produced 11 film and TV projects. These include Me, My Dog, and I and Rescue Me, distributed by Random Media,  Driver, distributed by Gravitas Ventures, Deadly Infidelity, distributed by Green Apple,  Death’s Door, a TV series based on a co-written book. At Death’s Door, published by Rowman & Littlefield, The New Age of Aging, distributed by Factory Films, and Reversal distributed by Shami Media Group. Several other films have just been completed or are in production: Courage to Continue and Bad Relationships She has recently developed a TV series The Neanderthals Return, based on a series of books about the Neanderthals coming back into modern society. She has written and produced over 60 short films, including dramas, book and film trailers, TV show pilots, documentaries, and promotional videos.  Her IMDB resume is at http://imdb.me/ginigrahamscott. She is the author of four books on filming, including So You Want to Turn Your Book Into a Film?, The Basic Guide to Pitching, Producing, and Distributing Your Film, and The Basic Guide to Doing Your Own Film Distribution, Finding Funds for Your Film or TV Project.  and The Complete Guide to Distributing an Indie Film. She has been hired to write over two dozen scripts for clients, adapted from their novels, memoirs, or script ideas. She reviews books for their film potential and writes treatments and scripts for three major companies that publish books and promote them for authors. Her scripts include action/adventure scripts, suspense thrillers, psychological character films, and contemporary dramas.  Some recent scripts are the sci-fi suspense thrillers Brain Swap, Dead No More, Deadly Deposit, and Reverse Murder.  Other scripts include the crime action thrillers Rich and Dead and Deadly Affair; and the suspense thriller Bankrupt.

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      Working with People with Disabilities - Gini Graham Scott PhD

      Working with People with Disabilities

      A Workshop on How to Better Understand, Communicate, and Work with Anyone with a Disability

      By Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D.

      Changemakers Publishing and Writing

      750 La Playa, #952 . San Francisco, CA 94121

      www.changemakerspublishingandwriting.com

      ––––––––

      Working with People with Disabilities

      Copyright © 2015 by Gini Graham Scott

      All rights reserved.  No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Table of Contents

      Part I: Introduction (PPT-1)

      Introduction to the Topics to Be Covered (PPT-2 and 3)

      Goals for the Training (PPT-4)

      Objectives for the Training (PPT-5)

      An Overview of the Workshop Environment and Schedule (PPT-6)

      Guidelines for Participating in the Workshop (PPT-7)

      Introducing Yourself (PPT-8)

      Your Organization’s, Professional, or Personal Mission, Vision and Values (PPT-9)

      Part II: Understanding Disabilities (PTT-10)

      The Concept of Social Justice (PPT-11)

      Defining Disability (PPT-12)

      Types of Disabilities (PPT-13)

      The History of Treatment of People with Disabilities (PPT-14)

      The Disability Rights Movement (PPT-15)

      Laws Protecting People with Disabilities (PPT-16)

      The Growing Awareness of and Acceptance of People with Disabilities (PPT-17)

      Discussion about Learnings and Applications for Segment II (PPT-18)

      Awareness of Disabilities at Lunch (PPT-19)

      Part III: Experiencing Disabilities (PPT-20)

      Debriefing about Lunch Experience (PPT-21)

      Imagining a Disability – and How to Deal with It (PPT-22)

      Discussing the Experience of Noticing Your Other Abilities (PPT-23)

      Playing the Employment Game – as an Employer and an Employee (PPT-24)

      Discussion about the Employment Game Experience (PPT-25)

      Part IV: Interacting and Communicating with People with Disabilities (PPT-26)

      Observing an Interaction with a Person with a Disability (PPT-27)

      The Key Rules for Communicating with a Person with a Disability (PPT-28)

      Part V: The Many Voices of Disability (PPT-29)

      The Many Voices of Disability Videos (PPT-30)

      Part VI: Understanding the Culture of Disability (PPT-31)

      Videos Featuring the Culture of Disability (PPT-32)

      The Role of the Media in Contributing to the Culture of Disability (PPT-33)

      Part VII: Becoming an Ally and Offering Support (PPT-34)

      Videos on Becoming an Ally and Offering Support (PPT-35)

      How to Help As an Ally or Supporter (PPT-36)

      Part VIII: References and Resources (PPT-37)

      Part IX: Putting It All Together (PPT-38)

      Learnings and Applications from the Workshop (PPT-39)

      Evaluating the Workshop (PPT-40)

      Final Networking (PPT-41)

      Appendixes - Forms and Guidelines (PPT-42)

      A-1 - Initial Assessment

      A-2 – Schedule for 2-Day Workshop

      A-3 – Imagining a Disability Guidelines

      A-4 – Disability Cards

      A-5 – Industry Cards

      A-6 – List of Ways to Assist as an Ally or Supporter

      A-7 – Plan of Action for Assisting as an Ally or Supporter

      A-8 – References and Resources

      A-9 – Workshop Evaluation Questionnaire

      Part I: Introduction (PPT-1)

      This training manual has been developed for conducting a workshop for the officers and managers of corporations, small businesses, and non-profits and their employees, to help them better understand how to work with and provide employment opportunities for employees with a disability.  It can be adapted for working with employees who are already hired or for new hires.

      The program is designed to provide both information and a series of simulations and games to offer a hands-on experience that will provide opportunities for reflection and discussion.  It is supplemented by a PowerPoint presentation, which begins with the Title Page (PPT-1) on the screen.

      The 16-hour workshop can be conducted as a complete program during a two-day training or it can be divided into a series of separate modules that can be presented as four half-day programs or five 3 1/2 hour programs.  These alternatives are provided to accommodate different types of work settings.

      The target students are leaders or employees in companies with 10 or more employees or organizations with more than 10 participating members to provide a large enough group for conducting a workshop.  However, leaders, employees, and members of smaller organizations might be combined into a larger group for a workshop.  The program can be adapted for any age group, whether or not the participants have worked with people with disabilities.  he information can also be applied outside one’s own organization to include any kind of contact with people with disabilities. 

      Where the topics for this program are included on PowerPoint slides, they are indicated next to the subhead for that topic in parenthesis as PPT-1 (Title Page), PPT-2, PPT-3, and so on.

      Structure of the Workshop

      The workshop will combine a mixture of lecture using PowerPoint slides, video presentations, visualization and journeying, experiential exercises, simulation games, reflection on the material presented, discussion with other participants, and sharing with the group as a whole.  The presenter will act as the facilitator in leading the exercises and group discussion.  The presenter will use the feedback sessions to assess student learning, clarify student comments, and provide additional lecture or experiential material as needed to help students acquire key learning points.  To promote student interest and involvement, the presenter will show a high level of interest and enthusiasm, and will encourage all participants to take an active part in the exercises and discussions.  Participants will also be invited to experience the role of leaders in the small group exercises, discussions, and games.

      To conduct the workshop, the following

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