Invisible Disabilities (Udemy.com)

Embracing best practices for supporting employees with disabilities can improve the performance, productivity, and morale for your whole team. But not all disabilities are visible, and you may not know when someone on your team could use support. Making appropriate accommodations for people when their disabilities aren’t visible can seem challenging, but it doesn’t have to be. Discover how to recognize invisible disabilities and provide appropriate and reasonable accommodations for people with physical disabilities, neurological differences, and mental illness.

After this course, you’ll be able to:

- Provide appropriate support for disabled colleagues based on the challenges faced in your workplace

- Show empathy when colleagues face challenges in the workplace due to an invisible disability

- Identify support needs that can be associated with different types of neurodivergence

- Implement reasonable accommodations in the workplace to support neurodivergent team members

- Identify support needs that can be associated with different types of physical disability

- Implement reasonable accommodations in the workplace to support physically disabled team members

- Identify support needs that can be associated with different types of mental illness

- Identify signs that a colleague may be experiencing mental illness and provide appropriate support

- Create a work environment where team members openly discuss their support needs

- Use the PAL framework to listen empathetically so the best accommodations can be made