"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
Winston Churchill

All of the Center's disabilities awareness training programs use the unique and highly innovative Cromwell Method. We do not teach about particular disabilities or conduct “show and tell” or simulations. Instead, we change attitudes.

The Cromwell Method engages participants in interactive activities that often appear to have little or no relationship with disabilities. Through questioning and facilitation, we lead participants to discover on their own, and from other participants, positive attitudes, understanding, and acceptance of people with disabilities.

This disarming approach causes participants to take ownership of these principles. Unlike most awareness programs that focus primarily on physical disabilities, the nature of the Cromwell Method covers all disabilities — learning, behavioral and emotional, developmental, and physical. The target population is people without disabilities; the ultimate beneficiaries are all people, with and without disabilities.

The Cromwell Method forms the basis for all of our programs, which can be implemented anywhere in the world.