Inclusion is essential in today's legal workplace, both for individuals and for organisations. The SBS Core Inclusion Program comprises eight self-paced courses designed to provide core skills and knowledge around supporting diversity in the workplace.

The Disability course provides information and first-person stories to improve understanding of disability in all its guises, and show how employment options for people with disability can be improved and embraced

On completion of the Disability course, you should be able to:

• Give some examples of the many different types of disability that people can experience
• Identify some of the benefits of employing people with disability
• Explain the medical and social models of disability
• Describe the term ‘neurodiversity’
• Give some examples of how employers can support employees who may have a mental health condition
• Explain what ‘adjustments’ are, and how these can help organisations to include people with disability
• Identify three ways that employers can make the recruitment process more accessible to people with disability
• Explain the meaning of the initialism ‘ATP’
• Outline how organisations can benefit from of knowing the disability status of their staff, and how they can encourage employees to share this information
• Describe how conscious biases may sometimes play out when a manager is considering the employment or progression of a person with disability

This course consists of four modules:

• Why disability inclusion?
• Everyone is different
• How to include people
• Building capability

The course was created by SBS in collaboration with the Australian Network on Disability.