Good Practice Guidelines for Engaging with People with Disability
These Guidelines are to assist you to engage with people with disability in an inclusive, respectful and appropriate way.
The Guidelines provide practical advice across the key stages of the planning and delivery of your engagement.
You can download the Guidelines as a single document or read as webpages.
These Guidelines provide governments, the private and non-government sectors with a practical tool for the engagement and inclusion of people with disability in community consultation, policy development and government decision making.
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Executive summary
Easy Read Summary of the Guidelines
Context
Context and audience for these guidelines
Follow good practice engagement principles
Understand what disability means
Define the level of participation
Design
Start by thinking about accessible design
Identify activity characteristics
Make participant experiences positive
Partner with disability specialists
Plan
Identify and attract participants
Give participants clear information in advance
Plan accessible in-person activities
Meet people’s accessibility needs
Create accessible materials – audio and video content
Create accessible materials – forms and surveys
Create accessible materials – Images and diagrams
Create accessible materials – presentations
Create accessible materials – print and digital documents
Deliver
Manage changing responsibility between team members
Follow up
Analyse and reflect with people with disability
Tools
Expression of interest form template
Housekeeping discussion guide example
Quick guide for facilitating with people with disability example