Programmes catalogue
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- Sign Language Courses
- Training for Accessibility Professionals
- Digital Accessibility
- Creating Accessible Spaces
- Centring Disability Series
- Towards Disability Confidence
All Programmes
Singapore Sign Language Level 1
Learn the basics of Singapore Sign Language and gain an introduction to Deaf culture and the Deaf community in a fun and welcoming environment.
Singapore Sign Language Level 2
Deepen your understanding of the nuances of SgSL and Deaf culture. Build confidence in everyday conversations and strengthen your expressive and receptive skills through storytelling and narration.
Singapore Sign Language Level 3
This advanced course explores the linguistic and grammatical complexities of SgSL and helps you engage in more in-depth, nuanced conversations. Develop fluency through structured dialogue and discussion.
Singapore Sign Language
Private Classes
Need a more flexible learning option? If our regular schedule doesn’t suit you, private lessons are available. We’ll work with you to customise a schedule that fits your needs.
Speech-to-Text Interpreting
Fast at typing and passionate about inclusion? Kickstart your journey into accessibility work here, by learning how to provide real-time speech-to-text interpretation!
Dipping to SgSL Interpreting
Fluent in sign language, and wondering what else you can do with this skill?
Get a taste of what the sign language interpreting profession is and the skills you’ll need to hone. Explore key considerations interpreters must have to ensure your work is ethical, respectful, and grounded in allyship.
Social Media Accessibility Bootcamp
Learn how to make your social media content more inclusive and accessible, aligned with the concept of Universal Design. Through a mix of theory and practical components, you’ll pick up inclusive design practices that you can start implementing immediately!
Screen Reader Testing for Content Creators
Get practical with accessibility! Learn the basics of using screen readers to test your social media content and ensure it’s accessible for blind and low-vision users.
Spotlighting Disabled
Content Creators
Gain insights from disabled creators about accessibility, representation, and inclusive storytelling on social media. Learn best practices grounded in lived experience and expertise.
Everyday Accessibility Tools
Learn about the basic accessibility features available on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android, and get hands-on guidance on using these tools to make your experience with tech more accessible.
Accessibility for Google Workspace
Learn how to ensure you make your Google Docs, Slides, Sheets more accessible —whether you’re creating content or collaborating with disabled team mates.
WCAG for Non-Tech Folks
A plain-language guide to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
Learn the basic principles of digital accessibility and how you can help make websites and online content more inclusive in your everyday work, even if you’re not a designer or developer.
Working with Accessibility Professionals
What does it really mean to integrate accessibility services into your event?
Go beyond surface-level solutions and explore how to collaborate meaningfully with accessibility professionals, so that everyone feels empowered to actively participate.
Disability Inclusive Language
How we talk about disability shapes how we think, and how disabled people are treated. Critically examine the language we use around disability, unpacking the worldviews it reflects, the assumptions it carries, and the real impact it has on communities.
Creating Accessibility-Centred Workplaces
What does inclusion look like in practice,
not just on paper?
Drawing from the lived experiences and practices of Equal Dreams’ own cross-disability team, this session explores how to build truly accessible workplaces. Learn how each of us plays a role in fostering cultures of care, respect and inclusion.
Organising Accessible Events
(Full-Day Programme)
This comprehensive workshop guides you through integrating accessibility into every stage of event planning — not as an afterthought, but as a core value. Explore both baseline practices and deeper considerations, and leave with insights and resources to build a tailored action plan for accessible events at your organisation.
Organising Accessible Events
(Half-Day Programme)
In this condensed session, you’ll learn the key principles of accessibility in events, focusing on baseline practices that can be implemented right away. Ideal for teams looking to build foundational knowledge with limited time.
Organising Accessible Virtual Events
Learn how to design and host virtual events that are accessible to all participants. From platform setup to communication and support, this session covers essential practices for inclusive digital participation, whether you’re a disabled organiser or if you’d like to make your programme accessible to disabled communities.
Centring Disability:
An Introduction
Gain a foundational understanding of disability from a justice-oriented and lived experience lens. Learn key concepts about Universal Design, the social model of disability, and get introduced to the diversity of communication preferences, access needs and barriers within different disability communities.
Option to customize: You can request to learn what a disability affirming environment can look like in specific contexts (e.g. your workplace, event, or student club).
Centring Disability: Deaf & Hard of Hearing Perspectives
Explore the diverse experiences within the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community, and learn directly about the community from Deaf trainers. Learn about the Deaf community as a linguistic and cultural minority, communication preferences, common access barriers, and widespread misconceptions.
Centring Disability: Blind & Low Vision Perspectives
Gain an introduction to the diversity within the blind and low vision community. Learn about cultural norms, common assistive technologies, and key principles of information accessibility. Hear directly from trainers who are blind, sharing lived experiences and practical insights.
Centring Disability: Neurodiversity Perspectives
This programme invites participants into a deep and practical engagement with the Neurodiversity Paradigm: a framework that affirms neurological differences as natural and valuable forms of human diversity, rather than pathologies to be corrected.
While much public discourse still treats neurodivergence through the lens of disorder, this programme challenges participants to critically examine how that view has shaped our systems, language, and relationships — and to explore how things could look different if we centre neurodivergent expertise, autonomy, and lived experience instead.
Towards Disability Confidence: Deaf & Hard of Hearing Community
Learn what it means to develop more inclusive and informed practices in engaging with Deaf and Hard of Hearing students. Explore common misconceptions, key accessibility services, and the cultural and linguistic identity of the Deaf community. Learn about the cultural model of disability, how systemic barriers impact Deaf individuals in learning environments, and how educators can effectively collaborate with their Deaf students and accessibility providers to make learning spaces more accessible.
Towards Disability Confidence: Blind & Low Vision Community
Ideal for educators and staff looking to build inclusive practices that support blind and low vision students effectively. Get introduced to the diversity within the blind and low vision community, including types of vision loss and respectful language and terminology. Learn about the community’s experiences in education, the role of accessibility services and assistive technology, and practical strategies for creating accessible learning content and materials.
Towards Disability Confidence: Neurodiversity
Designed for educators and non-teaching staff in higher education, this session introduces the neurodiversity paradigm and its shift away from deficit-based models. Participants will explore key definitions, historical context, and learn to reframe how behaviour is understood through a neuro-affirming lens. Learn practical strategies for creating supportive, neuro-affirming environments in higher learning.
Deaf Awareness & Appreciation Workshops
Ideal for short, 1-hour sessions with large audiences, this workshop offers an introduction to Deaf awareness and the Deaf community. Participants will also learn basic conversational Singapore Sign Language (SgSL).
Customisable option:
We can tailor the session to include signs for specific contexts such as customer service, teaching Deaf students, or communicating with Deaf colleagues in the workplace
Sign Language Courses
Our Singapore Sign Language curriculum is developed and taught by Deaf trainers. You’ll get access to a video library of signs taught in class, receive personalised weekly homework feedback, and enjoy the chance to connect with your instructor beyond lesson hours via a Telegram class chat.
Singapore Sign Language Level 1
Learn the basics of Singapore Sign Language and gain an introduction to Deaf culture and the Deaf community in a fun and welcoming environment.
Singapore Sign Language Level 2
Deepen your understanding of the nuances of SgSL and Deaf culture. Build confidence in everyday conversations and strengthen your expressive and receptive skills through storytelling and narration.
Singapore Sign Language Level 3
This advanced course explores the linguistic and grammatical complexities of SgSL and helps you engage in more in-depth, nuanced conversations. Develop fluency through structured dialogue and discussion.
Singapore Sign Language Private Class
Need a more flexible learning option?
If our regular schedule doesn’t suit you, private lessons are available. We’ll work with you to customise a schedule that fits your needs.
Deaf Awareness & Appreciation Workshops
Ideal for short, 1-hour, 2-hour or 3-hour sessions with large audiences, this workshop offers an introduction to Deaf awareness and the Deaf community. Participants will also learn basic conversational Singapore Sign Language (SgSL).
Customisable option:
We can tailor the session to include signs for specific contexts such as customer service, teaching Deaf students, or communicating with Deaf colleagues in the workplace.
Training for Accessibility Professionals
Speech-to-Text Interpreting
Fast at typing and passionate about inclusion?
Kickstart your journey into accessibility work here, by learning how to provide real-time speech-to-text interpretation!
Dipping into SgSL Interpreting
Fluent in sign language, and wondering what else you can do with this skill?
Get a taste of what the sign language interpreting profession is and the skills you’ll need to hone. Explore key considerations interpreters must have to ensure your work is ethical, respectful, and grounded in allyship.
Digital Accessibility
Series 1: Accessibility & Inclusion in Social Media
Social Media Accessibility Bootcamp
Learn how to make your social media content more inclusive and accessible, aligned with the concept of Universal Design. Through a mix of theory and practical components, you’ll pick up inclusive design practices that you can start implementing immediately!
Screen Reader Testing for Content Creators
Get practical with accessibility!
Learn the basics of using screen readers to test your social media content and ensure it’s accessible for blind and low-vision users.
Spotlighting Disabled Content Creators
Gain insights from disabled creators about accessibility, representation, and inclusive storytelling on social media. Learn best practices grounded in lived experience and expertise.
Series 2: Introduction to Digital Accessibility
Everyday Accessibility
Tools
Learn about the basic accessibility features available on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android, and get hands-on guidance on using these tools to make your experience with tech more accessible.
Accessibility for Google Workspace
Learn how to ensure you make your Google Docs, Slides, Sheets more accessible —whether you’re creating content or collaborating with disabled team mates.
WCAG for Non-Tech Folks
A plain-language guide to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
Learn the basic principles of digital accessibility and how you can help make websites and online content more inclusive in your everyday work, even if you’re not a designer or developer.
Creating Accessible Spaces
Working with Accessibility Professionals
What does it really mean to integrate accessibility services into your event?
Go beyond surface-level solutions and explore how to collaborate meaningfully with accessibility professionals, so that everyone feels empowered to actively participate.
Disability Inclusive Language
How we talk about disability shapes how we think, and how disabled people are treated. Critically examine the language we use around disability, unpacking the worldviews it reflects, the assumptions it carries, and the real impact it has on communities
Creating Accessibility-Centred Workplaces
What does inclusion look like in practice, not just on paper?
Drawing from the lived experiences and practices of Equal Dreams’ own cross-disability team, this session explores how to build truly accessible workplaces. Learn how each of us plays a role in fostering cultures of care, respect and inclusion.
Organising Accessible Events
(Full-Day Programme)
This comprehensive workshop guides you through integrating accessibility into every stage of event planning — not as an afterthought, but as a core value. Explore both baseline practices and deeper considerations, and leave with insights and resources to build a tailored action plan for accessible events at your organisation.
Organising Accessible Events
(Half-Day Programme)
In this condensed session, you’ll learn the key principles of accessibility in events, focusing on baseline practices that can be implemented right away. Ideal for teams looking to build foundational knowledge with limited time.
Organising Accessible
Virtual Events
Learn how to design and host virtual events that are accessible to all participants. From platform setup to communication and support, this session covers essential practices for inclusive digital participation, whether you’re a disabled organiser or if you’d like to make your programme accessible to disabled communities.
Centring Disability Series
The Centring Disability series is targeted for general audiences, providing an introduction to disability from a justice-oriented perspective, and highlighting the diversity within each disability community.
Centring Disability:
An Introduction
Gain a foundational understanding of disability from a justice-oriented and lived experience lens. Learn key concepts about Universal Design, the social model of disability, and get introduced to the diversity of communication preferences, access needs and barriers within different disability communities.
Option to customize: You can request to learn what a disability affirming environment can look like in specific contexts (e.g. your workplace, event, or student club).
Centring Disability:
Deaf & Hard of Hearing Perspectives
Explore the diverse experiences within the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community, and learn directly about the community from Deaf trainers. Learn about the Deaf community as a linguistic and cultural minority, communication preferences, common access barriers, and widespread misconceptions.
Centring Disability:
Blind & Low Vision Perspectives
Gain an introduction to the diversity within the blind and low vision community. Learn about cultural norms, common assistive technologies, and key principles of information accessibility. Hear directly from trainers who are blind, sharing lived experiences and practical insights.
Centring Disability: Neurodiversity Perspectives
This programme invites participants into a deep and practical engagement with the Neurodiversity Paradigm: a framework that affirms neurological differences as natural and valuable forms of human diversity, rather than pathologies to be corrected.
While much public discourse still treats neurodivergence through the lens of disorder, this programme challenges participants to critically examine how that view has shaped our systems, language, and relationships — and to explore how things could look different if we centre neurodivergent expertise, autonomy, and lived experience instead.
Towards Disability Confidence
The Towards Disability Confidence series is designed for educational institutions, targeting both faculty and non-teaching staff. It focuses on understanding the access needs of different disability communities within higher education. Through interactive sessions, participants are encouraged to reflect on what it means to create truly inclusive classrooms and learning environments for disabled students.
Towards Disability Confidence: Deaf & Hard of Hearing Community
Learn what it means to develop more inclusive and informed practices in engaging with Deaf and Hard of Hearing students. Explore common misconceptions, key accessibility services, and the cultural and linguistic identity of the Deaf community. Learn about the cultural model of disability, how systemic barriers impact Deaf individuals in learning environments, and how educators can effectively collaborate with their Deaf students and accessibility providers to make learning spaces more accessible.
Towards Disability Confidence: Blind & Low Vision Community
Ideal for educators and staff looking to build inclusive practices that support blind and low vision students effectively. Get introduced to the diversity within the blind and low vision community, including types of vision loss and respectful language and terminology. Learn about the community’s experiences in education, the role of accessibility services and assistive technology, and practical strategies for creating accessible learning content and materials.
Towards Disability Confidence: Neurodiversity
Designed for educators and non-teaching staff in higher education, this session introduces the neurodiversity paradigm and its shift away from deficit-based models. Participants will explore key definitions, historical context, and learn to reframe how behaviour is understood through a neuro-affirming lens. Learn practical strategies for creating supportive, neuro-affirming environments in higher learning.