Disability
Competencies
General
and Overarching
Disasters
– Emergencies
Health
Care
Language and
Terms
General and
Overarching
Accessible
Meetings, Events, and Conferences (July 2015), Digital updated
version
of June Isaacson Kailes and Darrel Jones' 1993 work, A Guide to
Planning
Accessible Meetings. The Mid-Atlantic ADA Center and TransCen Inc.
After
20 years I finally got to
update need modernize our book “A Guide to Planning Accessible
Meetings”
published in 1993, working with a talented team. This July 2015,
digital updated
version [versus the ole days of cut and real paste clip art] includes
both
regulatory updates (from the 2010 update to the Act) along with
practical
doable guidance. No more hard copy and shipping cost, everything is now
available online and it can be easily updated.
Disability
Simulation Exercises
- The goal of disability stimulations is typically to teach about how
people
with disabilities and use the environment and technology, and to build
understanding regarding the importance of accessibility. What happens:
pity,
fear, feeling fortunate not to have a disability, believing disability
is
hard and frustrating. “You wouldn’t
ask a person
to pretend to be African-American or gay, so why is it OK to have
someone put
on a blindfold and think that they can understand what it is like to be
blind?”
says Kathy Martinez, disability rights advocate. Read
more ...
Effectively
Including People with Disabilities in Policy and Advisory Groups
(Edition 2, 2012), Provides how-to information for effectively
including people
with disabilities in policy and advisory boards, councils or work
groups;
contains material on developing and sustaining an advisory group;
discusses why
to include people with disabilities; and how to identify qualified
people
with disabilities. Includes a planning checklist that covers defining
purpose,
structure, size, lines of communication, membership, recruiting,
budgeting,
staffing, minutes, accountability, meeting access and accommodations; a
planning recruiting matrix; and an agenda and minutes template. PDF ,
Word
Tips
for Interacting with People with Disabilities (2011), Includes
a quiz
to check awareness of preferred practices; sections on: who are people
with
disabilities and other activity limitations, and specific guidance
focused on
mobility and physical disabilities, speech, vision, hearing, allergies
and
environmental sensitivities, and language. PDF,
Word
Disasters
– Emergencies
Be
Real, Specific, and Current: Emergency Preparedness Information for
People with
Disabilities and Others with Access and Functional Needs, Edition 1.0, 2016 Preparedness information
for the general population is not always equally applicable for people
with
disabilities. General emergency preparedness information is important
for
everyone. These materials can be more inclusive when they contain
information
that focuses on specific functional needs. Offers guidance,
examples, and
resources on promoting or producing these materials and includes
checking that
the content:
- is
developed in partnership (of,
with and by) people who live with disabilities and others with access
and
functional needs;
- includes
information that is
useful and specific to people with limitations in hearing, vision,
mobility,
speech, and cognition (thinking, understanding, learning, remembering);
- describes
disability in accurate
and respectful ways and uses neutral terms that avoid offensive words
which
reflect negative attitudes and stereotypes;
- focuses
on no cost and low cost
preparedness in addition to costly activities;
- recognizes
that that not all
people can afford to buy emergency supplies and equipment;
- is
available in accessible and
usable formats and give users information on how to get these materials
in
other formats such as large print, audio, disks, or Braille; and
- uses
resources that are clearly
described and annotated with specific links to more resources. WORD
Checklist
for Integrating People with
Disabilities and Others with Access and Functional Needs into Emergency
Planning, Response & Recovery, 2014
Format: PDF
For
emergency planners,
managers, responders, and public information officers (PIOs) who have
responsibility for developing, maintaining, testing, delivering and
revising
emergency plans and services. Use it to help:
- Evaluate
current capacity of critical elements that integrate people with
disabilities
and others with access and functional needs into emergency planning,
response,
and recovery.
- Identify
areas needing attention
- Set
priorities
- Assess
progress
- Develop
inclusive emergency plans, policies, processes, protocols, training,
job
aids/checklists, standard operating procedures and exercise programs.
- Periodically
evaluate progress and identify elements that have been implemented, and
areas
that continue to need attention.
Defining
Functional Needs - Updating CMIST (2017) - A
CMIST update
resulting from the evolving of terms as well as the clarity, precision,
and
specificity of our thinking and practice. CMIST is a memory tool to
help people
remember and plan for the five functional needs individuals that may
have in
an
emergency or disaster: communication; maintaining health; independence;
support, safety and self-determination; and transportation.
Emergency
plans based on optimizing function
rather than “specialness” increases the chance of successful
accommodation of
predictable needs. For example, the fact that people have survived a
stroke,
tells us nothing about their functional needs for maintaining their
health,
safety and independence, which can range from no needs to many needs.
Guidance for
Integrating
People with Disabilities in Emergency Drills, Table Tops and Exercises
(Edition
1, 2015), Draft guidance prepared for North Carolina Emergency
Management. It uses the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation
Program
(HSEEP) Master Task List format commonly used in the field to provide a
set of
guiding principles for exercise programs, as well as a common approach
to
exercise program management, design and development, conduct,
evaluation, and
improvement planning. The second column is what is new and it
focuses
on steps that to recruit, accommodate, include, and get feedback from
people
with disabilities and others with access and functional needs in your
exercises. It also includes some suggestions for injects that can be
tailored
to your specific exercise.
It
is work in progress, but I thought you would be
interested in seeing and maybe using it. Your feedback is
encouraged.
Health
Care
Can Disability, Chronic
Conditions, Health and Wellness Coexist? (2000),
Word,
6 pages, Covers:
- health
and disability as
not being mutually exclusive,
- problem
with people with
disabilities seeing health as just one more thing beyond their control,
something they cannot change or influence,
- newer
models of health,
- importance
of care
providers understanding and discarding negative misconceptions and
stereotypes
surrounding disability so they are better able to support and
contribute to the
health of people with disabilities,
- inability
of people with
disabilities to get helpful information regarding what type of
exercises is
best suited to their specific limitations,
- people
with disabilities
needing exercise: guidelines, facilities and equipment.
Disability Competency Resources – Updated
frequently, last update
7.2015, contains listings related to: communication,
attitude, physical & equipment access as well as clinical issues.
24 pages.
Quality
Services for People with Disabilities and
Activity Limitations
(2011), 4-part
training (sneak
peek):
- Defines
“disability”
- Americans
with Disabilities Act of 1990 - how it
impacts health care services
- How
health care worker's attitudes & beliefs
may affect quality health care
- Physical,
communication, and medical equipment
trying to obtain health care.
Language
and Terms
Language
Is More
than a Trivial Concern!
(2010), Sensitizes people to appropriate
terminology to use when speaking with, writing about or referring to
people
with disabilities. Challenges readers to be aware of the importance of
using
disability-neutral terms. Details preferred language and gives reasons
for the
disability community’s preferences. Serves as an excellent reference
tool for
the public, media, marketers, providers and for board members, staff
and
volunteers of disability-related organizations. Includes a language
quiz and
many examples. Word, PDF
You and I
Time to Get Rid of
"SPECIAL"?
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