The Office of Disability Access and Inclusion offers a 1-hour or 1.5-hour Disability 101 Training designed to provide foundational knowledge about disability and accessibility to UCSF Campus and Health learners, staff, and faculty.

Learning Objectives

• Build awareness of the types of barriers commonly experienced by people with disabilities (physical, systemic, attitudinal, digital, and social).
• Understand the experience of disability through a social justice lens.
• Gain an awareness of the common misconceptions around disability.
• Key topics may include disability social justice and equity; ADA laws and regulations and UC policies; digital accessibility; reasonable accommodations; language; dispelling common myths around disability; microaggressions and ableism.

The Office of Disability Access and Inclusion provides individual and group consultations around best practices for planning accessible in-person, remote, and hybrid events at UCSF.

Our Office can provide the following:

• Guidance on adding an accommodation statement for your event.
• Guidance around responding to requests for reasonable accommodations.
• Information about campus resources for learners, faculty, patient, and guest accommodations.
• A basic discussion about publicity and presentation materials to ensure they are accessible. Please review the UCSF IT Digital Accessibility page for detailed information.
• Information on how to schedule accessibility vendors.
• Tips on working with ASL interpreters and captioners for events.
• Tips on how to facilitate accessible and inclusive in-person, remote, and hybrid events.

This 1-hour training introduces foundational strategies for making research accessible and inclusive for people with disabilities. Creating accessible and inclusive research can reduce barriers to participation and promote diversity within clinical research.

Learning objectives:

By the end of the training, participants will learn about:

• Potential barriers that disabled people may experience in clinical research settings.
• Principles of universal design and accessible research practices.
• Strategies for expanding recruitment pipelines to involve more people with disabilities.
• UCSF research protocol and accessibility practices.
• Tools and strategies for communicating with patients with disabilities in healthcare settings.
• Reasonable accommodations and clinical research.