Services
Build more accessible, effective services and organizations
Disability-focused education, digital tools, audits, consulting, training, and speaking that help helping professionals, practices, teams, and organizations reduce barriers, improve experiences and outcomes, and make access part of everyday work.
βΒ Founded by Tessa Bathauer, LMSWΒ Β Β βΒ Disability-foundedΒ Β Β βΒ Education Β· strategy Β· Implementation support
β WHAT THIS WORK CHANGES
Access becomes part of everyday work
Centering disability and access changes how people experience services, communication, systems, events, and workplaces. It helps you address barriers that affect disabled clients, patients, students, participants, and staff, whether or not those barriers are visible or obvious.
This can lead to
β How NeoBilities can support you
Find the right starting point
NeoBilities supports helping professionals, private practices, teams, and organizations improve access, reduce barriers, and build stronger systems through digital products, courses, trainings, audits, consulting, and speaking.
Some people need self-paced tools they can use right away. Others need structured learning, a clearer picture of where barriers are showing up, or support in planning and implementing change. This page is designed to help you find the right starting point.
β Choose your path
Start where you see yourself
Choose the path that best matches your role, goals, and what kind of support you need next.
For helping professionals and practices
For social workers, therapists, counselors, healthcare providers, educators, private practitioners, and smaller practices who want stronger disability competency, better tools, and more accessible client-facing services.
For organizations and teams
For nonprofits, schools, healthcare settings, group practices, administrators, departments, teams, and leaders who want to reduce barriers, improve systems, and strengthen staff and participant experience.
β Services
Ways to work with NeoBilities
Digital products & tools
Self-paced templates, guides, and toolkits you can start using right away β a lower-lift, affordable starting point.
Courses
Structured, self-paced learning that deepens disability-informed practice and builds confidence in day-to-day work.
Trainings & workshops
Team-based learning that builds shared language and practical next steps for staff, leadership, and professional gatherings.
Audits & reviews
Identify barriers across services, communication, workflows, websites, forms, and events β with smart, prioritized next steps.
Consulting & implementation
Tailored help translating disability and access insight into practical decisions across services, policies, workflows, and culture.
Speaking
Keynotes, guest lectures, and featured sessions that bring disability, access, and lived experience to conferences and campuses.
β COMMUNITY
Disability Justice United
A free, disability-centered community within the NeoBilities ecosystem β
an optional place for ongoing reflection, connection, and conversation
alongside your learning or service work.
β START WITH WHAT YOU NEED
Not sure where to begin?
If you are not sure where to begin, start with the type of support that best matches your current situation.
β Proof and feedback
What participants say
Participants consistently describe Tessaβs sessions as practical, engaging, and useful, and several comments specifically mention frameworks, resources, audience engagement, and ideas they could bring back to their workplaces or organizations.
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Very informative. Lots of new information and great conversation.
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Very knowledgeable presenters and excellent visual aids and activities.
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The resources provided were incredible.
β What disability-informed means
Access as part of core operations
A disability-informed approach starts with seeing disability as a normal part of human diversity and recognizing how it shapes communication, services, systems, policies, and everyday decisions.
In practice, that means noticing where barriers are being created, treating access as part of core operations rather than an afterthought, and making space for disabled peopleβs perspectives in planning, feedback, and leadership.
β What happens next
You donβt need to know exactly which service to choose
Share a little about your role, setting, goals, or current challenge, and NeoBilities can help you identify a practical starting point. From there, the next recommendation might be digital products, a course, a training, an audit, consulting support, speaking, or a combination, depending on your needs and capacity.
Talk about your needs
