People with cognitive disability are often excluded from committees and consultations. The Voice at the Table Project seeks to create change and ensure that people with cognitive disability can have a real and equal voice on boards, committees, and consultations. This includes people with intellectual disability and acquired brain injury.
What do we do?
- Training for people with cognitive disability about speaking up
- Inclusive meeting training for organisations.
- Meetups for people with cognitive disability who have done training.
Who is the inclusive meetings training for?
Staff working for organisations aiming to ensure people with cognitive disabilities have a genuine say. For example, for committee members, support staff, or people organising consultations.
What do you learn?
- Why inclusive practice is important.
- To identify and understand the barriers to participation for people with cognitive disability.
- Ways to make your meetings welcoming.
- skills and techniques for getting people with cognitive disability to open up and speak confidently.
How is training delivered?
- Online or in person.
- Training is co-designed and co-facilitated by people with cognitive disability in line with the VATT motto, ‘Nothing about us without us’.
- Using plain and easy English.
