Disability Awareness Training (DAT) CDROM
- CDROM Overview
- Origin of the DAT Program
- How the Program Works
- Program Features
- Minimum System Requirements
- What Professionals Are Saying
- Ordering Information
DAT CDROM Overview
The North American population as a whole is aging and the incidence of persons with disabilities is rising.
Your organization's employees need to be trained to provide the best service to all clients.
The proper training will enable your staff to effectively and respectfully serve persons with disabilities. After all, customer service is one of the primary reasons why customers switch service providers.
To assist you with this task, Easter Seals New Brunswick has developed the Disability Awareness Training (DAT) CD-ROM.
To increase disability awareness for your company's representatives dealing with the public.
To increase disability awareness within your human resources personnel.
Properly trained management staff are better equipped to effectively interview and interact with persons with disabilities, thus preventing an embarrassing slip-up or comment from offending a top prospect employee or potential business partner.
Origin of DAT program
The DAT program is based on information seminars presented by Easter Seal and March of Dimes organizations in various North American communities. The training seminars usually happened in a limited number of communities and required several participants. Now, the multimedia CD-ROM version of the DAT program offers an employer greater flexibility. The DAT CD-ROM provides a uniform training program which is accessible to all individuals within an organization.
How the Program Works
The program is computer-based training, an increasingly popular method of employee training. An employee trains at a personal computer and follows the instructions of the program, reading the information as it appears on the screen or having the computer read the information to them. Information is presented in an interesting multimedia format which includes disability simulations, video clips, and sound. The program covers Vision, Hearing, Mobility, and Speech disability awareness. Each section takes approximately 20 to 30 minutes to complete.
Program Features
Sections can be completed separately or all at once, allowing for a flexible training schedule.
Video clips, simulations, tips, and facts make the learning engaging and memorable for the user.
Knowledge gained by the user is tested by multiple choice quizzes.
Most screens have an audio choice button prompting the computer to read the information presented on the screen.
Our hope is that you will see the great benefit this training tool can provide your organization and that you will consider implementing this training as part of your employee orientation program. This will give your organization a cutting edge advantage in providing services to, and hiring, persons with disabilities.
Profits generated through the sales of the DAT software supports Easter Seals New Brunswick. This non-profit organization is the principal New Brunswick agency working in partnership with people with disabilities so that they may attain independence and equality of opportunity generally available in the community.
Click on the icons below to view some sample screen shots from the DAT program. Images are big and may take a while to load.
Minimum System Requirements
- Pentium III / 500 MHz
- 128 MB RAM
- Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP
- 640 x 480 256 color display
- 16 Bit sound card
- CD-ROM drive
- Microsoft video driver
What Professionals Are Saying
"[the DAT program] is an excellent educational tool that would be useful to Canadian Airlines International."
Danny Strilchuk
Workplace Diversity Manager
Canadian Airlines International
"[This] initiative is long overdue, and designed in a way that is educational and understandable"
Randy Dickinson
Executive Director
Premier's Council on the Status of Disabled Persons (New Brunswick)
"This program offers excellent advice on how individuals and organizations can effectively interact with persons with disabilities. The video clips and simulations are particularly powerful training tools. Every organization should adopt this program."
Dr. Joy Mighty
Associate Professor
Faculty of Administration, University of New Brunswick
Diversity Management Consultant
Ordering Information
The Disability Awareness Training CD can be ordered by Contacting Us at the office of the New Brunswick Easter Seals. On-line ordering of this CD will be available soon.
The price for the DAT CD is as follows:
- The DAT CDROM is $49.99 per unit, plus applicable shipping charges.
We accept checks, money orders, Visa, purchase orders, or we can invoice organizations if more convenient.