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Tag Archives: National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM)
Can Work be Good for Your Health?
As we close out October’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month, we are exploring the connection between employment and health. Some research has shown that being employed may have several health advantages for working-age people with disabilities, including access to healthcare … Continue reading
Are You Hiring? VR Can Help!
Continuing our recognition of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), we are taking a look at how Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agencies can support people who do the hiring: employers, hiring managers, and human resources (HR) departments. People with disabilities who … Continue reading
Peer Providers – How Your Experience Makes You Right for the Job
Being a peer provider can be a rewarding and challenging way to put your lived experience of disability or recovery to work! Continue reading
Technology and the Inclusive Workforce
As we bring National Disability Employment Awareness Month to a close, let’s take a moment to reflect on the role of technology in building an inclusive workforce. On the one hand, almost every job requires some interaction with technology, from … Continue reading
Employment and People with Disabilities: A Global Perspective
According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), people with disabilities make up around 15%, of the world’s population. Of that 15%, about 80% are of working age, or about 1 billion people. However, people with disabilities frequently face attitudinal, physical, … Continue reading
Forge Your Own Path – Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship
Did you know that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, people with disabilities are almost twice as likely to be self-employed than their peers without disabilities? Self-employment and entrepreneurship offer people with disabilities a viable path to economic independence, … Continue reading
NDEAM 2017: Inclusion Drives Innovation
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM)! The Office of Disability Employment Policy selected “Inclusion Drives Innovation” as the theme for 2017. “Americans of all abilities must have access to good, safe jobs,” said U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander … Continue reading
NDEAM Starts This Week!
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM)! First declared by President Harry S. Truman in 1945, NDEAM is celebrating its 70th anniversary with new posters and public service announcements, with “My Disability is One Part of Who I Am” … Continue reading
Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. Each month, we look through the searches on our blog and through the information requests made by our patrons who speak Spanish and … Continue reading
Posted in Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged Access to public employment, accessibility, adapted technology, Argentina, assistive technology, Belize, Disabilities, disability, Dr. Fabricio Balcazar, employment, entrepreneurship, FEAPS Madrid, Hispanics, Hispanics with disabilities, Knowledge Translation for Employment Research Center, KTER, Latinos, Latinos with disabilities, minorities, Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center, MSKTC, NARIC, National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), NDEAM, NIDRR, NIDRR projects, NIDRR research, people with disabilities, Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for Evidence Based Practice in Vocational Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability and Co-Occurring Medical Conditions, Rehabilitation Research Training Center on Employment of People with Disabilities, RRTC, RRTC-EBP VR, Spanish, Spanish-language, VCU-RRTC, vocational rehabilitation
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What are Reasonable Job Accommodations for People with Disabilities?
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). NDEAM raises awareness about disability employment issues and celebrates the many and varied contributions of America’s workers with disabilities. The theme for 2014 is “Expect. Employ. Empower.” The Americans with Disabilities Act … Continue reading
Posted in Answer Queue, Organization, Uncategorized
Tagged accommodations by disability, ADA. Americans with Disabilities Act, Employer Assistance and Resource Network, Employers, employment, JAN, Job Accommodation Network, LEAD Center, National Collaboration on Workforce and Disability/Youth, National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), reasonable accommodation, searchable online accommodations resource, SOAR, Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, workers with disabilities
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