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Communicating With People With Developmental Disabilities
- Category: Advocacy
- Materials: “What is People First Language?” by ARC of United States, www.the.arc.org/who-we-are/media-center/people/-first-language, “People First Language” by Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities, www.tcdd.texas.gov/resources/people-first-language/
- Goal: Provider knows how to appropriately communicate with an individual with a developmental disability
- Credit Hours: 1 Hour
- Date Developed: March 2014, Updated February 2017
- Developed by: Donna McCune, SFC Program
Training Objectives:
- Specialized Family Care Provider can define and use people first language
- Specialized Family Care Provider knows how to address persons with a disability
- Specialized Family Care Provider advocates for the use of appropriate language in communications with persons with a disability
Training Procedures:
- *Provider initiated self-study. Alternate formats of the study materials are available upon request. (Course Materials)
- Test completed by Provider (Take the Test Below)
- Review of test responses by Family Based Care Specialist and Provider