Autism Awareness Month takes place from April 1st to April 30th and aims to promote understanding, acceptance and inclusion of individuals with autism within communities worldwide. It's a key time to recognise the strengths and challenges faced by individuals on the autism spectrum. At O'Brien Media, we understand the importance of supporting our neurodivergent team members, which includes those...

Disability Pride Month is a yearly event in July that increases awareness of disability as an identity, how it affects people and the community, as well as the pride that disabled people have and can bring. This blog post will explain what Disability Pride Month is and why it is so important to us here at O’Brien Media! Why is it so important to O'Brien Media? Having been a Disability Confident...

We are proud to be Disability Confident at O'Brien Media. Throughout January and February, we'll be supporting the Disability Confident campaign. In this time of year, many employers are planning for the upcoming financial year and recruiting new talent. Our goal is to spread the word about Disability Confident to other companies. Here are some of the ways that being an inclusive employer has...

With the Paralympics currently on at the moment, and with our newly confirmed status as a Disability Confident Leader, we feel like it’s an important time to make people aware of the do's and don't's of inclusive language. This is taken from this Government article under Crown Copyright. Collective terms and labels The word ‘disabled’ is a description not a group of people. Use ‘disabled...

We’ve got some really exciting news to share with you that we are really proud of here at O’Brien Media – we are now a Disability Confident Leader. We’d written a blog post on how we’d become Disability Confident ‘Committed’ as part of Disability Pride Month (the first stage) which you can read about here, but now we’ve not only advanced past the second stage (Employer) but now...