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Creating Welcoming Environments for Workers with Disabilities: Managing Cognitive DemandThis comic is a collaboration between CeKTER and the Temple University Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Community Living and Participation of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities (ACL grant #’s 90RTCP0001 & # 90RT5021). It is based on work by Gretchen Snethen, PhD, CTRS and colleagues. The comic shows and example of how workers with disabilities can be supported at work. A transcript of the comic is available at https://www.umassmed.edu/globalassets/cekter/docs/transcripts/managing-cognitive-demand-transcript.html. A .png version of the comic is available for download.
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Hiring workers with disabilities makes sense whether the job market is hot or coldThe U.S. Department of Labor released its latest report in September, and it was more of the same. Unemployment remained at 3.9 percent, where it has hovered for much of the year, but there was a shift for one key demographic. After decades of struggle, workers with disabilities are beginning to move the needle, outpacing the employment gains of people without disabilities. In August 2018, the employment-to-population ratio for working-age people with disabilities jumped to 30.2 percent from 29.5 percent the year before. The labor force participation rate for working-age people with disabilities also increased, rising from 32.5 percent in August 2017 to 33 percent in August 2018.
