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Disability Awareness Course

What will I learn?

Improve your social work practice with our Disability Awareness Training. This training is designed to give professionals like you the right skills to support people with disabilities and understand disability well. You'll learn how to talk to people properly, make plans to support them, and help them speak up for themselves. You'll also learn how to find social services, know where to go for help, and work with other groups in the community. You'll learn how to remove things that stop people from accessing services and understand their legal rights. This training will help you teach others about disability and work with important people to make our community more inclusive for everyone.

Apoia's Unique Features

Online course accessible for life
Certificate compliant with educational standards
Printable PDF summaries
Online support always available
Select and arrange the chapters you wish to study
Set your own course workload
Instant feedback on practical activities
Study at your convenience, without needing internet access

Develop skills

Strengthen the development of the practical skills listed below

Get good at supporting others: Make plans and help people with disabilities speak up for themselves properly.

Know where to find help: Find and use important social services quickly.

Help people become strong: Help people with disabilities become independent and believe in their own abilities.

Remove problems: Use ways to fix accessibility issues and legal rights.

Teach others: Talk to communities and important people about disability.

Suggested summary

Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

Before starting, you can change the chapters and the workload.

  • Choose which chapter to start with
  • Add or remove chapters
  • Increase or decrease the course workload

Examples of chapters you can add

You will be able to generate more chapters like the examples below

This is a free course, focused on personal and professional development. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.