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Educating Health Professionals On How To Serve People with Disabilities

This webinar is hosted by the San Diego Breastfeeding Coalition and made possible partly by a grant from the California State Council on Developmental Disabilities to provide healthcare professionals strategies and tools for communication with parents and families with disabilities and accessible lactation.

The was a live, virtual event that took place on September 5th, 2023 from 10:00AM - 01:30PM PT

Objectives:
COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES
1) Establish a framework for disability.
2) Review disability-related legislation in the United States.
3) Define communication and complex communication needs.
4) Explore the interplay between disability and health communication.
5) Describe the patient-centered care framework.
6) Review communication strategies to improve patient care for persons with disabilities.
7) Discuss opportunities for education to improve communication in health disciplines.

ACCESSIBLE LACTATION
1) To understand the different types of differences and disabilities that impact breast/chestfeeding
2) To describe the challenges that lactating people with various differences and disabilities face during their breast/chestfeeding process
3)To learn about adaptations to the environment to assist the lactating person
4) To discuss support systems for lactation success

The registration for this event has ended.