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Tag Archives: vocational rehabilitation
Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community for June 2020
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. This month’s question is: What is the purpose of vocational rehabilitation? This edition of Answered Questions includes items that discuss employment for people … Continue reading
Celebrating 100 Years of Vocational Rehabilitation – with 40 Years of Research
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, we shine our spotlight on more than 40 years of NIDILRR-funded research in VR. Continue reading
Posted in history, Project
Tagged NIDILRR History, NIDILRR Research, vocational rehabilitation
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Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community for February 2020
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. This month’s question is: My brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a young adult. What information, resources, and research are available to help … Continue reading
Posted in Publications, Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged #CollabChats, #mentalhealth, #PathwaysRRTC, #TransitionsACR, #TUCollaborative, community participation, education, employment, inclusion, independent living, mental health, mentoring, NIDILRR, NIDILRR funded projects, NIDILRR-funded research, peer providers, rehabilitation, Research In Focus, RIF, schizophrenia, serious mental illness, social inclusion, stigma, technology, video-based mobile health interventions, vocational rehabilitation
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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
Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community for February 2018
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. This month’s question is: As a parent, how do I help my child transition from school to work? This edition of Answered Questions … Continue reading
Posted in Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged adult life, adults with disabilities, Answered Questions, community conversations, education, Employees with disabilities, employment, integration, social skills, students with disabilities, ThinkCollege, transition, transition services, vocational rehabilitation, VR, work plans, young adults, youth, youth with disabilities
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Focus Group Opportunities for Young Adults in Transition and Adults with Autism
The NIDILRR-funded Center on Knowledge Translation for Employment Research (KTER) is conducting focus groups of youth in transition and adults with autism. Each focus group has different eligibility criteria. All focus groups will be conducted by phone. Please see the … Continue reading
Posted in Clinial/Rehab trials, Survey
Tagged autism, employment, focus group, KTER, transition, vocational rehabilitation
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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 Publications, Respuestas a las Preguntas, Uncategorized
Tagged ABI, acquired brain injury, assistive technology, AT, brain injury, Disabilities, disability, education, employment, inclusion, NIDILRR, people with disabilities, rehabilitation, research, Spanish, Spanish-language, TBI, technology, traumatic brain injury, vocational rehabilitation
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, November 2 to Friday, November 6
Aquí puede leer este artículo en español. Employment: At this specialty shop, the intellectually disabled are proud businesspeople (The Washington Post) Two 18-year-old individuals with intellectual disabilities are staffing a mobile pop-up store in the parking lot of D.C.’s Union … Continue reading
Posted in Weekly News Roundup
Tagged blind and low vision aid, brain crossmodal mapping, cataracts, combat injuries and chronic disease, independent living skills, injured veterans, intellectual disabilities, lanosterol eye drops, loss of speech following stroke, National Council on Disabilities, pejvakin and hearing loss, self-driving cars, stroke, vocational rehabilitation, workplace discrimination against workers with disabilities
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What is home health care?
Home health care, or home health, can be defined as a wide range of health care services that are provided within a person’s home for an illness or injury and can be for the short or long term. Usually, it … Continue reading
Posted in Answer Queue, Uncategorized
Tagged accessibility, Disabilities, disability, home health, home health aide, home health care, NIDILRR, NIDILRR Articles, NIDILRR Projects, NIDILRR Research, people with disabilities, personal care assistants, technology, vocational rehabilitation
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