Intellectual Disability and Diversity
Governor Patrick's Diversity Executive Order
Diversity Quotes Selected by the Commissioner (RTF)
Local Diversity Committees
Metro Region
Northeast Region
Diversity Training
The diversity training educates employees about diversity as a business and social issue. It examines the philosophical underpinnings of the diversity perspective by placing the conversation in the context of the Department's commitment and ownership of diversity as a business issue. The specific areas examined are:
- Primary dimensions of diversity
- Secondary dimension of diversity
- Institutional dimension of Diversity
- Language and Cross cultural Communication
- Cultural competence as a developmental process
Dates are available via PACE at: http://comasskcprod.mksi-lms.com/kc/login/login.asp?kc_ident=kc0001&strUrl=http://comasskcprod.mksi-lms.com/DMR/Default.asp
Diverse Groups
The Disability Community
- Disability as Diversity
- Disability is Natural
http://www.disabilityisnatural.com/ - Diversity includes Disability
- http://www.dol.gov/odep/archives/ek98/disabili.htm
- http://www.miusa.org/ncde/spotlight/diversity
- Diversity in disability: Exploring the interactions between disability, ethnicity, age, gender and sexuality
- OUCH! It’s a disability thing!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/
This information is provided by the Department of Developmental Services.