Baby Shower

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Reframing Disability as Diversity

• Kathy Smith, MPA, CESP
• Director of Language and Accessibility Services

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Reframing Disability as DiversityDisclosure

• Requirements for Successful Completion (to
  receive the 1 contact hours for this activity)
• The participant will
• Sign the attendance sheet
• Participate in presentation discussion
• Complete post-presentation electronic evaluation
• Provider Approval Statement
• Children's Mercy Kansas City is an approved
  provider of continuing nursing education by the
  Midwest Multistate Division, an accredited
  approver by the American Nurses Credentialing
  Center's Commission on Accreditation.
• Conflict of Interest
• No conflicts of interest have been identified for
  the planners and presenters for this educational
  activity.

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Objectives

• After completing this activity, the learner will
  be able to discuss the scope and impact of
  disability in the general population, including
  why disability should be considered a component
  of diversity.
• After completing this activity, the learner will
  be able to discuss appropriate and inappropriate
  ways to interact with individuals who experience
  various disabilities.

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Objectives

• After completing this activity, the learner will
  be able to define person first language and
  describe why it is important.
• After completing this activity, the learner will
  be able to describe strategies to provide good
  customer service to individuals with disabilities.

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Why?

• Legal
• Section 504 - Rehabilitation Act (1973)
• PL 94-142 Education for All Handicapped
  Children Act (1975)
• ADA Americans With Disabilities (1990)
• Section 508 update Information and
  Communication Technology

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Why?

• Business Case
• People with disabilities are a large untapped
  source of talent in our country.
• 21 of people with disabilities employed
• vs.
• 68 of people without disabilities employed
• February 2018, Office of Disability Employment
  Policy, Department of Labor

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Why?

• Social Inclusion
• Our patients with disabilities and chronic health
  conditions are more than 3x more likely to be
  unemployed as adults compared to their peers
  without disabilities.

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• My
• Personal
• Why?

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What?

• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Physical or mental impairment that substantially
  limits one or more major life activity.
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• The interaction between features of a persons
  body and features of the society in which he/she
  lives.
• Its all about context . . .

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Who?

• Approximately 57 million Americans
• 15 families
• Hidden or visible
• From birth or acquired
• An experience many of us will have in our
  lifetime

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When?

• Civil rights movement for people with
  disabilities is relatively recent (Berkley -
  1960s)

• Work remains to be done
• Utah father is suing the Boy Scouts of American
  after his son, who has Down Syndrome, wasnt
  allowed to complete his Eagle Project.
• USA Today
• March 20, 2018

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Where?

• Reframe the conversation . . .
• Disability as a normal part of the human
  experience
• NOT . . .
• Something to be fixed

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How?

• Customer Service for People With Disabilities

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Minda Cox