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Creating an Inclusive Environment with the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Scheme

Chris Grant (he/him) December 07, 2024 0 Comments
At O'Brien Media, inclusivity is at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to announce our commitment to the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Scheme, a global initiative designed to support and recognise individuals with non-visible disabilities who may need additional understanding, assistance, or time. By joining the Sunflower network, we pledge to take meaningful steps toward creating a more...
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Creating a Dyslexia-Friendly Workplace: A Guide for Inclusive Communication

Chris Grant (he/him) November 02, 2024 0 Comments
In today’s diverse workplace, fostering an environment where everyone is included and empowered is essential. Dyslexia, a common learning difficulty affecting reading, writing, and spelling, is often overlooked in workplace accessibility efforts. By making some simple adjustments, businesses can become more inclusive to individuals with dyslexia, creating a positive impact on overall...
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Celebrating Autism Awareness Month: Embracing Sensory Tools in Our Workplace

Chris Grant (he/him) April 13, 2024 0 Comments
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...
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Chronic Pain Not Always a Barrier to Work: How O’Brien Media Was Founded

Chris Grant (he/him) September 30, 2022 0 Comments
As Pain Awareness Month draws to a close our Founder, Chris, thought now would be the perfect time to share the story of how disability, chronic pain, and a desire to use my website design and development skills, came together resulting in the creation of a business that worked around my disability, and that could, later on, help others who had been unfairly passed over by other employers into...
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Disability Pride Month 2022 is here!

Camilo Pires July 06, 2022 0 Comments
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...
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Disability Confidence Celebrated 

Dylan Fernandez January 25, 2022 0 Comments
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...
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Using inclusive language – make sure you know the words to use and avoid when talking about disability!

Camilo Pires September 03, 2021 0 Comments
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...
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We are now a Disability Confident ‘Leader’!

Camilo Pires August 23, 2021 0 Comments
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...
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