Two virtual trainings offer providers information on providing health care to people with disabilities.

• Both trainings are free for participants
• Physicians and nurses who successfully complete one or more of the trainings can elect to receive free continued education credits. Other clinicians can request certificates of completion by emailing disability.health@unh.edu.

The two trainings support quality care practices:    

• Responsive Practice: Providing Health Care and Screenings helps providers describe health needs of people with disabilities, recognize obstacles people with disabilities face when using health care and preventive services, and acquire strategies and approaches to provide high-quality, responsive care. 
  • Completion of this training module provides 1 credit of continued education.  
  • Use this link to access the Providing Health Care and Screenings training.  
• Responsive Practice: Communication emphasizes that patients with disabilities are competent to understand, communicate, and participate in their own care. The training helps providers identify and use alternative methods of communication, and set clear and reasonable expectations for future communications to be successful. 
  • Completion of this training module provides 0.5 credits of continued education.
  • Use this link to access the Adaptive Communication training.   

Both trainings are offered virtually and on-demand, allowing participants to complete the trainings when it works best for them. These trainings are free, and the content is useful for health care providers and all frontline health care staff.    

The trainings come from The New Hampshire Disability and Health Program.