Ensuring Effective Communication to Meet ADA Guidelines:
A training program for health professionals![]()
Disability can impact communication. Usually minor accommodations can be made to ensure effective communication. Some individuals with deafness or hearing loss use sign language to communicate and may request a sign language interpreter as their preferred accommodation.
Healthy Delawareans with Disabilities (HDWD) offers this 1.5 hour training to offer strategies to optimize effective communication with a focus on how to best work with an individual with a hearing impairment to enhance the quality of the services they receive. The following information will be covered in the training:
- Overview of the ADA, the health professional’s responsibilities, and enforcement history
- How to communicate using “auxiliary aids”
- Finding a qualified interpreter
- Interpreter duties and code of ethics
- Resources
This activity has been designated for 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Our Instructors:
Eileen Sparling, Ed.M., Healthy Delawareans with Disabilities, Project Director
Loretta Sarro, Public Information Officer, Delaware Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Betsy Tucker, CI and CT, Certified Interpreter and Certified Transliterator
***Note: The February 17th training has been cancelled. Please check our training page for more information about other upcoming trainings: http://www.gohdwd.org/resources/trainings/
If you have questions, please contact Bhavana Viswanathan at bhavana@udel.edu or 302-831-8374.
This training is part of a series:
- Disabilities 101: Strategies for Being Welcoming and Accommodating
- Maximizing Access: Smart Choices in Equipment and Facility Design
- Ensuring Effective Communication to Meet ADA Guidelines
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Medical Society of Delaware and the University of Delaware, Center for Disability Studies. The Medical Society of Delaware is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Medical Society of Delaware designates this live continuing medical education activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. It is the policy of the Medical Society of Delaware to comply with the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support of Continuing Medical Education. In keeping with these standards, all faculty participating in continuing medical education provided by the Medical Society of Delaware are expected to disclose to the activity audience any real or apparent conflicts of interest related to the content of their presentation. Joint providership of CME by MSD in no way implies endorsement of any product or service. This activity is not supported by commercial funding.
