Our online Disability Confidence Training workshop is all about helping you and your team improve how you connect with and support people with disability or who are d/Deaf.

1 in 5 Australians live with disability, making them a significant market segment for providers of arts and culture. In this workshop you’ll:

Discover practical solutions for making your organisation disability confident
Receive useful resources
Learn from trainers with disability who are arts experts
Enjoy the increased accessibility and convenience of online training
Be able to interact with our trainers as well as other participants, so you can ask questions and share knowledge
Come to our public workshop or book a private in-house session

The training covers:

Key disability legislation and government bodies, including the Disability Discrimination Act and the Disability Inclusion Act
Creative solutions to delivering inclusive and accessible arts and culture programs
Identifying and mitigating access barriers
Best practice for customer service, language and etiquette
Inclusive communication skills and policies

Duration

90 minutes

Participation

Our workshops are delivered using the Zoom video conferencing platform.

About Zoom

Zoom is an easy to use, reliable and FREE cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, collaboration, chat, and webinars across mobile devices, desktops and telephones.
If you haven’t used Zoom before you can find out more here: https://zoom.us/
After signing up for our workshop, you’ll receive an email from us inviting you to a Zoom meeting on the date of the workshop. On the day of the workshop, all you have to do is click on the relevant link in the invitation, follow the prompts and you’ll be part of the workshop.

Access

Closed captioning and Auslan interpretation are available on request for all training. Please advise of your access requirements upon registration. Please note that we require at least 4 working days’ notice.

Enquiries

Please email info@aarts.net.au or call (02) 9251 6499 if you have any questions.

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Disability Confidence Training

Choose your tickets

General Admission ticket

Group Discount ticket

Old Fitz Theatre ticket

The Arts Unit ticket

Donations

Accessible Arts Donation