…disability. Vocational rehabilitation counselors can play a key role in easing potential employers’ questions and concerns. With correct information and useful resources from vocational rehabilitation professionals, employers can tap into…
Accommodations: Employer Supports
You already know that the Americans with Disabilities Act requires employers to make certain accommodations for employees with disabilities. Despite myths to the contrary, accommodating employees with disabilities in the…
Employer Supports: Disability Awareness
When an employer considers hiring a person with a disability, they often find themselves wondering how to interact with the candidate. Some employers may not have much previous experience with…
Resource Guide: Customized Employment
…by the individual; and Working with an employer to facilitate placement, including – Customizing a job description based on current employer needs or on previously unidentified and unmet employer needs;…
Customized Employment: Employment Development Representation
…the employer. Together, the employment specialist and the employer can work together to identify tasks that aren’t getting done – and create a specialized position that benefits both the employer…
Employer Practices for Integrating People with Disabilities into the Workplace – Factsheet
…implemented in workplace settings to help reduce workplace discrimination.\n\n Employers have a critical role in cultivating a positive inclusion of diversity along with diminishing the negative attitudes and stereotypes.\n\n Fact…
Resource Guide: Competitive Integrated Employment
…wage and comparable to the customary rate paid by the employer to employees without disabilities performing similar duties and with similar training and experience; Receiving the same level of benefits…
Supported Employment 101: For Vocational Rehabilitation and Community Rehabilitation Program Partners – Factsheet
…supports the employee with a most significant disability in their new position until the new employee is meeting employer satisfaction. That support can include learning the job tasks, identifying supports…
Resource Guide: Supported Employment
…and abilities. An Employment Specialist supports the employee with a most significant disability in their new position until the new employee is meeting employer satisfaction. That support can include learning…
Resource Guide: Work-Based Learning
…career skills and knowledge Offers compensation Identifies target skills and how gains will be validated Rewards skill development Supports college entry, persistence, and completion Provides comprehensive student supports Strategies to…