Improving access and promoting inclusion in your massage therapy practice means creating an environment where all individuals feel welcomed and valued. This course will help identify various barriers ranging from physical, communication, and procedural, that may affect access to massage services for a person with a disability. Using concepts of universal design, respectful language, and reasonable accommodations and modifications, explore how to create an equitable practice for all clients. With these new skills, you will never look at your practice the same way.
When you finish this course, you will be able to:
- Identify differences between impairments, disabilities and handicaps;
- Discuss the history of disability rights;
- Identify basic interaction guidelines, including person-first language and identity-first language;
- Highlight concepts of accessibility, accommodation and the seven principles of universal design;
- Explain health literacy and how it is used to reduce communication barriers;
- Summarize impairments of mobility, sight, hearing, speech and health; and
- Outline the roles and responsibilities of mandated reporters and voluntary reporters to protect our vulnerable populations.
Susan Salvo, EdD, BCTMB, LMT has over 30 years of experience in the massage therapy profession. She is a co-director of the LA Institute of Massage Therapy, and is a nationally known author and speaker who has written several massage textbooks and online courses.
Course Expiration
Please note that you must complete each AMTA online learning course and pass the exam one year from the date of purchase. If you do not complete the course and pass the exam within one year, you will be required to re-purchase the course.
Online courses expire one year from the date of purchase. When a course expires, you will no longer have access to the course materials and will be required to re-purchase the course.
Course Approval Code(s)
LCEU0004079
Copyright
This course contains information that is proprietary. None of the material contained within this course may be used without the express written permission
of AMTA unless otherwise indicated in the course. As a reminder, before practicing any new modalities or techniques, check with your state’s massage therapy
regulatory authority to ensure they are within the state’s defined scope of practice for massage therapy.
Refunds
Online courses are non-refundable. AMTA will not cover fees incurred from duplicate payments, insufficient funds, stopped payments or credit/debit cards over
credit limits.