Disability in TV: A Social Model Approach to Disability Inclusion

Do you want to feel more confident talking about disability? Want to learn how to make your environment more accessible?

Disability in TV is for everyone in the screen industries who wants an introduction to disability and inclusion. You’ll learn about the current state of disability representation based on our Diamond data, learn a simple model to improve access at work, and have a chance to apply it within this session.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the session, you will be able to:

• Define what is meant by the term ‘disability’
• Identify different types of disabilities
• Explain what is meant by the term ‘disability inclusion’
• Explain how the TV industry is performing at disability inclusion
• Explain what is meant by the Social Model of Disability

Practical Information:

This session is 1 hour with no break.

The session is delivered online-live using Zoom. This sesison encourages active participation using activities, discussion and breakout rooms.

This session uses breakout rooms .

What to expect in a CDN Training Session:

CDN training sessions are small interactive workshops of up to 15 people to facilitate deeper learning. Each session will have an introduction, breakout discussion rooms, interactive activities, use of collaborative software, and call-out questions to the room. We encourage videos and active discussion in these sessions and ask that you are in an enviroment where you will be able to speak freely. If you do not want to be on video or speak, video off and interation through chat is also an option. We encourage active participation in any form for the full benefit of the session.

Our Trainers

Our trainers all have lived experience and are working professionals within the TV and Broadcasting industry. They bring a wealth of professional and personal experience to their roles as trainers.

Each trainer has been through our Doubling Disability Programme on an 8-week Train the Trainer course and are industry approved to deliver our training.

Access:

Otter.ai captioning is provided as standard.

If you have any access requirements, let us know by emailing: training@creativediversitynetwork.com

Recorded Workshops:

At times we may record our workshops for internal training and monitoring purposes. Please see CDN's privacy policy here. Sessions that will be recorded are listed below.

• 21st January 2025
• 12th Febuaray 2025

About CDN

CDN exists to enable the UK Broadcasting industry to increase diversity and inspire inclusion. We work with our members towards a broadcasting industry with equality at its core monitored through the world's first industry-wide data collection system, Diamond. Only 4.5% of those working off-screen in the UK television industry identify as disabled compared to 17% of working people in the UK which is why we run the Doubling Disability project, providing disability inclusion training to the industry. Join us in Doubling Disability by attending some of our training courses and keeping up to date with Diamond.