Lesson 2How to ensure inclusive project management
- Notion 8 - Project practices that promote the inclusion of users with learning disorders
- Notion 9 - Project practices that promote the inclusion of users with socioeconomic difficulties
- Notion 10 - Project practices that promote inclusion of users with hearing impairments
- Notion 11 - Project practices that promote the inclusion of users with visual impairments
- Notion 12 - Project practices that promote the inclusion of users with physical impairments
- Notion 13 - Project practices that promote the inclusion of users who don't speak the country's native language, have low literacy and/or have a lack of digital skills
- Notion 14 - Review of the main concepts
Notion 8
Project practices that promote the inclusion of users with learning disorders
Target skills
Gain practical knowledge on how to ensure project management is inclusive toward people with learning disorders.
How can people with learning disorders be included and supported at work?
Access to quality employment is a fundamental right for people with learning disabilities and can help them feel included and valued. Since these people often feel isolated from the rest of society, they would feel more integrated into their communities if they were provided with dignified and accessible work conditions.
In which ways can this be achieved?
- Increase the use of assistive technology (for instance, integrate spellcheck tools into work software for those who struggle with writing and spelling).
- Provide a safety net through alternative tasks or a work partner who would be available for support and collaboration.
- Provide voice and video instructions to adapt training to employees’ expressed needs.
-Eliminate tests.
- Allow employees to work at their own pace to ensure everyone turns in high-quality work.
What can be done to make meetings more accessible for people with a learning disability?
- It is important to plan and inform participants of meetings before they take place to ensure that they are accessible (such as sending meeting papers in advance).
- Make sure only one person talks at once and uses their microphone.
- Give everyone a chance to talk.
- Use communication cards containing relevant and simplified terminology to help participants remember to tailor their language.
How can people with learning disabilities be included in research?
- Presenting the information in an Easy Read format with relevant images (for more guidance on how this can be done, visit: https://www.changepeople.org/getmedia/923a6399-c13f-418c-bb29-051413f7e3a3/How-to-make-info-accessible-guide-2016-Final)
- Develop Easy Read materials as a matter of course.
How to make people with SLD feel more included in society
Better inclusion occurs when three factors come together:
- People with learning disabilities are included due to changes to technology (see also: https://www.openorchestras.org/ to understand how young people with multiple and complex needs are enabled to learn music skills and become music makers).
- The development of new methods of doing something or through the acquisition of new skills (such as individuals with SLD that excel as actors or TV performers).
- When social care services focus less on what people cannot do, but instead promote a genuine belief in what people with learning disabilities can do (with the right support).