As L&D specialists we must also ask ourselves, how confident are we when it comes to our own awareness of disability? Do we know the appropriate terms to use when delivering training to a group which has participants with disabilities?

Over the next two weeks we will publish our article which was penned for the Irish Institute of Training & Development TD Magazine. It really is great to see such influential organisations such as the IITD recognising and promoting the

For week 6 in our Client Profile Series we profile another client whose commitment to disability inclusion really stood out to us – The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) is the regulator of broadcasting services

This week we are profiling a collaboration who we particularly enjoyed working with – Screen Skills Ireland, Animation Skillnet and Animation Ireland. Screen Skills Ireland is the skills development unit within Screen Ireland, the national development agency for the creative

When it comes to truly embracing a commitment to disability inclusion, Bank of Ireland certainly is regarded by many as a leader in this area. With over 10,000 employees from different counties, countries and cultures, Bank of Ireland have committed

In week three we profile another client Ability Focus worked with whose commitment to disability inclusion really stood out to us. The Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage (Formerly known as the Department of Housing, Planning & Local Government)

This week we profile another organisation who have really embraced disability inclusion in 2020 – The Legal Aid Board. The Legal Aid Board is a statutory body which provides legal aid and legal advice in civil law matters for those

At Ability Focus we probably don’t spend enough time on our news items, and should have started this quite some time ago, but as of this week we will be profiling progressive organisations we have really enjoyed working with this

With the government’s latest announcement, once again we slip into the categorisation of society. Young people, elderly people, transport users, office workers, pub owners, school children. But none come with such negative connotations as those classed as ‘vulnerable’ ‘high risk’

The Irish Human Rights & Equality Commission have published their Annual Report for 2019. The report makes for interesting reading when looking at the statistics relating to disability. Of 672 queries made to IHREC in 2019 relating to the Equal

At Ability Focus, we welcome the inclusion of disability in the newly restructured ‘Department of Children, Disability, Equality & Integration’. This is a significant step, continuing the upward trend of rights recognition for people with disabilities in Ireland, starting in

While inclusion of people with disabilities in Irish workplaces is obviously the right thing to do, employers, human resource and talent acquisition teams must change this narrative and start taking the view that employment of this untapped talent pool is