Category: Disability
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How to be an awesome and inclusive presenter
Making presentations accessible – from design to delivery Presenting is something almost all communications pros will likely need to do at some point in their career. From client pitches, to presenting data back to teams, to sharing best practice at industry events, it’s important that your slide deck, and how you deliver it, is accessible.…
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INPR’s ultimate accessibility library for comms pros
Accessibility resources all comms pros should bookmark (including this blog!) May 18 2023 marks the 12th Global Accessibility Awareness Day. For comms professionals, accessibility continues to increase in importance. From inclusive language to tools for accessible meetings there are now many fantastic resources to ensure our communications and PR campaigns are as inclusive as possible.…
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Safe space inclusion training
Are my disability inclusion training sessions safe spaces? It’s a fair question. Safety and comfort can be confused when it comes to EDI training. This is because being challenged on views, or having tough truths laid out in front of you is confronting. Especially when we’re used to enjoying the benefits of our relative positions…
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Professionalism be damned, it never suited me anyway
Professionalism be damned, it never suited me anyway! I had a difference of opinion with someone on LinkedIn recently and it ties into something I talk about in my training sessions. It centred around having videos on in meetings, but what really it came down to is what people view as professional or not in…
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To pay or not to pay?
To pay or not to pay? Two incidents in the past few weeks have highlighted an ongoing issue – paying disabled people to speak or appear at an event. Both Naidex and Disability Expo have been called out on social media for either not paying the disabled people who have appeared or are due to…
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When a non-visible disability becomes visible
When a non-visible disability becomes visible As the three year mark of having Long Covid approaches, I’ve been slowly trying to pick up the pieces and stitch them together to create some kind of new life. A big part of that is returning to work. No-one, except those close to me, sees my bad days,…
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Disabled stories as narrative tropes
When you’re disabled your life can become a story. But not always a story that you own. Sometimes it’s edited or distorted, sometimes you become a side character in your own autobiography. This week is National Storytelling Week and I wanted to reflect on how and why disabled lives are so often viewed and used…
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The damage of rewarding poor representations of disability
When the news broke that Sia’s ‘Music’ has been given a Golden Globe nomination the film was once again in the spotlight for its representation of a person with autism. The film centres around a non-verbal person with autism who communicates through music. The character, Sia claims, is based on a friend. I’ve not watched…
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Are you better now?
Since having Covid in March and April of this year, it’s a question I’ve been asked countless times. I no longer know how to answer it. I am different, that is what is certain. I have had to learn to stop, to pace, to not achieve and, with no hint of Disney, let it go. …
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Why I’m running a new industry survey focused on disability
For the last decade both the CIPR and the PRCA have presented PR with a summary percentage of the number of disabled PR practitioners. Because of the scale of the reports, it’s impossible to go into granular detail, but it means our picture of disability in PR is far from complete. If we can gather…