Say My Name: The Extraordinary Benefits of Disability Inclusion

Research shows that up to 20% of people are living with some form of disability, including invisible disabilities and neurodivergence. The daily challenges these employees experience to exist in workspaces not designed to include them require them to develop different abilities to succeed. This workshop highlights some of the assets that disabled employees can bring to your team, then provides tangible ways that managers and individual contributors can best support these employees.

Learning Objectives:

1. Define disabilities and provide examples of invisible disabilities and neurodivergence and associated stereotypes.

2. Explain the difference between people-first language and identity-first language.

3. Describe some of the assets these employees can bring to your team.

4. Name at least three ways to be inclusive of these employees.