Lunch & Learn: Understanding Disability Culture

Description

Join Dutchess Tourism for our FREE 2022 Lunch & Learn workshop series on the following Wednesdays at 1 p.m.! You won't want to miss these informative and engaging sessions, designed to strengthen your business.

Virtual Workshops - participants will be able to turn on their video and microphone.
Wednesday, February 16 at 1 p.m.: Understanding Disability Culture
Presented by Taconic Resources for Independence
Taconic Resources for Independence will present on the following topics so that you can better serve all of your customers: overview of disability statistics, history of the disability rights movement, language usage, attitudinal barriers persons with disabilities face that impede societal acceptance and deepen stigma, the office environment and disability etiquette, deaf culture, and communicating with people who are deaf.