(NOTE: The corresponding Microsoft Word document shows a picture of the PowerPoint slide and includes blank lines to the right of each slide for the participants to take notes.) 

Slide 1: Module 1, Typecasting: Understanding Disability

Slide 2: Module Goals: 1. To understand the concept of stereotyping and how it affects people with disabilities. 2. To identify and dispel myths, stereotypes, and common misperceptions concerning people with disabilities

Slide 3: What is your initial impression of me? 

Slide 4: Stereotypes are: Assumptions that are made about a person or group’s character or attributes, based on a general image of a particular group of people.

Slide 5: Describe some common stereotypes for the following: Teenagers, Computer Programmers, People from New York

Slide 6: EEOC Discrimination Complaints: 79,432 total1. Categories include: Age, Sex, Religion, National Origin, Race, Retaliation, Disability (19.4%)2

Slide 7: “When you see a person with a disability, presume competence.” From: Snow, Kathy, Disability is Natural, 2001 10