Disability Awareness Training

The overall aim of this training is to provide workers with an overall awareness of various types of disabilities and the importance of providing respectful, safe and person-centred services in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the NDIS Code of Conduct Rules. The training covers the following topics but can be adapted specifically to your organisational requirements and may focus on a specific disability or range of disabilities:

• The Disability Discrimination Act 1992
• United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and rights-based practices
• Person-centred practices
• Understanding power and control when working with people with disabilities
• Dignity of risk vs duty of care
• What the NDIS is and why it has come about
• An overview of strategies that assist people with disability to build capacity and achieve their goals