From the course: Supporting Workers with Disabilities

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Application: Creating a plan for a positive and supportive environment.

Application: Creating a plan for a positive and supportive environment.

From the course: Supporting Workers with Disabilities

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Application: Creating a plan for a positive and supportive environment.

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- We're now ready to bring all of our learnings together to ensure that we are part of a positive process to support workers with disabilities. First things first, we need to familiarize ourselves with our comfort zone and establish where further support or education is necessary. Remember, it's okay to have reservations, uncertainties, and anxieties, but it's not okay to project those onto the worker with a disability. It is not their responsibility to carry that burden for you. In the exercise files, there is an activity to assess your comfort zones so that you can have awareness of the areas and situations that might pose a challenge for you. Be sure to check it out. Once you have an understanding of this, you should then ensure that you are able to recognize inappropriate behaviors. Ask yourself: Am I judging or jumping to conclusions? How would I feel if someone treated me that way? And, how would I feel if someone…

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