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This department has products to help people with disabilities succeed as employees of mainstream companies and organizations.

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Managed by: Cary Griffin of Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC
Co-managed by Beth Keeton

Product Categories
Books, Publications & Reports (printed and/or online) (31 Products)
Electronic Media (23 Products)
Organizations, Programs, and Projects (15 Products)
Online Forums (2 Products)
Other (3 Products)


Books, Publications & Reports (printed and/or online)
Asperger Syndrome and Employment : Adults Speak Out about Asperger Syndrome
This is a guide for helping people with Asperger's Syndrome get a job.
Asperger's Syndrome Workplace Survival Guide
This book was written for people with ASD who are working.
Barriers to Employment Success DVD
This DVD explains several things that make it hard to find and keep a job, and what will help. There is also a survey available to help people see what is getting in their way of having a good job.
Beyond Traditional Job Development
Beyond Traditional Job Development is a comprehensive guide to the insightful perspectives and effective strategies that lead to successful placement results.
Building Community Connections: Designing a Future That Works
Trainer's manual for a workshop designed to teach individuals with disabilities to utilize their contacts in a job search.
Career Success of Disabled High-flyers
This book is about people with disabilities who have careers.
Coffee Breaks and Birthday Cakes
This manual provides ways to judge workplace culture. It also has ideas about finding natural ways to support employees who have disabilities.
Customized Employment Q and A: Self-Employment as a Customized Employment Outcome
A fact sheet answering questions about small business ownership for individuals with disabilities
Developing Talents: Careers for Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome and High-functioning Autism
This book gives advice to help people with high functioning autism to develop their talents and find jobs.
Discovery Vocational Profiles
An aricle about getting to know a person before helping them plan for their lifes.
Diversifying Your Workforce
This guide tells employers what they should know about hiring and retaining employees who have disabilities.
Do Sheltered Workshops Enhance Employment Outcomes for Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder?
The results of this study suggest that sheltered workshops do not help people with autism get better jobs.
Employment Issues and Multiple Sclerosis: Second Edition
This book is written for people who have Multiple Sclerosis that have questions about employment and disability issues.
Empowerment for Americans with Disabilities: Breaking Down Barriers to Careers and Full Employment
This report tells how important it is for people with disabilities to be employed and fully included in society. It was written to the President of the United States.
Everyone Can Work: Customized Employment
A two-page fact sheet that explains why customized employment is important.
Hidden Talent: How leading companies hire, retain, and benefit from people with disabilities
Hidden Talent tells the stories of eight companies that are actively hiring, training, and retaining people with disabilities. The book offers encouragement and ideas for other companies to take advantage of this resource.
High School Transition that Works Learned from Project SEARCH
This book explains a program that helps students move from high school into good jobs.
Hoist Your Own Sails: Self-Directed Employment for People with Disabilities
A pocket sized book that provides an overview of self-directed employment
HowTo Find Work That Works for People with Asperger Syndrome
This book tells how to help people who have Asperger Syndrome find, and keep a job.
Job Success for Persons with Developmental Disabilities
This book is about helping people with disabilities get good jobs.
Learning to Work: A Collection of Stories About Life and Work Book
This explains what it is like to work at different jobs. There is a book to read through and a CD-ROM.
No One is Unemployable : Creative Solutions for Overcoming Barriers to Employment
This highly acclaimed, notably practical book reveals a proven ten-step process and secret strategies for overcoming any barrier to employment.
Organizational Culture: Info-Line
This booklet describes what organizational culture is, how it is developed and managed, and offers tips on how to better understand the culture of a company.
Real Choice for Real Opportunity: Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Their Families Speak Out
A report about the best ways to help people with disabilities find jobs that match their interests and talents, and lead to careers. It summarizes the ideas of 144 stakeholders who gathered to talk supporting people to find "real jobs."
Social Inclusion at Work
This book gives readers clear ways to help people with disabilities work together with and build friendships with others. It focuses on the places where people work.
Supporting Co-Workers with Diverse Abilities to Employment Success
A guide on ways to create natural, co-worker supports for employees with significant disaiblities
The Complete Guide to Getting a Job for People with Asperger's Syndrome Find the Right Career and Get Hired
This books has tips on getting hired for people who have Aspergers Syndrome.
The Way to Work: How to Facilitate Work Experiences for Youth in Transition
A book about the best ways to help young adults with disabilities to find good jobs. It is written for teachers and transition specialists.
What Do People With Disabilities Really Want?
An article about American businesses and people with disabilities, both as employees and customers. It is based on interviews with the leaders of seven major disability organizations.
Working Relationships: Creating career opportunities for job seekers with disabilities through employer partnerships
This book discusses means of linking people with disabilities with employers.
Working with People with Disabilities: In a Job Placement/Job Retention Environment
A book about creating jobs for people with disabilities. It also has ideas about helping people to be successful at work.
Electronic Media (Videos, CDs, T.V., Radio, Websites, etc.)
A Difference of Ability: Recruiting, Hiring and Employing People with Disabilities
A DVD with ideas about how best to support people with disabilities to find jobs in the community. It was made in Canada.
Barriers to Employment Success DVD
This DVD explains several things that make it hard to find and keep a job, and what will help. There is also a survey available to help people see what is getting in their way of having a good job.
Beyond Expectations: Employees with Disabilities
These DVD's show profiles of people with all types of disabilities who are working. The people shown have many different kinds of jobs.
Breadmakers
A film that shows a community of workers with intellectual disabilities who make bread to be delivered to shops and cafes.
Customized Employment Q and A: Assisting Adults with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Families to Pursue Their Employment Goals
This fact sheet explores why adults with disabilities are choosing to attend sheltered workshops and how this situation can be changed. It is from a study about the employment options of adults with disabilities.
Disability Scoop articles about unemployment and people with disabilities
These online news articles are about the difficulties people with disabilities are having finding jobs, and asking businesses to help. They were published in March and April of 2011.
Do Sheltered Workshops Enhance Employment Outcomes for Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder?
The results of this study suggest that sheltered workshops do not help people with autism get better jobs.
Facilitating Competitive Employment for Individuals with Disabilities
This CD features six national experts who talk about employment ideas for people with disabilities.
Getting It Right
Training DVD teaches staff how to interact and relate to people with disabilities. Participants walk away with a changed attitude and new learned behavior.
GettingHired.com
This website helps people with disabilities find jobs.
Institute for Community Inclusion website
A website of the Institute for Community Inclusion at Children's Hospital,
Harvard
Integrated Employment Toolkit
This website has information about helping people with disabilities find jobs in the community that pay well.
Johnny the Bagger
A true story of how a young man who worked at a grocery store went beyond his expected job description and had a large impact on the store. The story can read and heard through two different YouTube videos.
Learning to Work: A Collection of Stories About Life and Work Book
This explains what it is like to work at different jobs. There is a book to read through and a CD-ROM.
Meet the Future Face of Employment, Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Technology Fields
This website is about matching people with Autism Spectrum Disorder to jobs in the field of technology.
Real People, Real Jobs: Stories from the Frontline
A website with success stories of people with disabilities working in community jobs. Each story explains how the person found the job, and the supports used in building it into a good job.
Social Skills Hamper Job Hopes For Adults On The Spectrum
This online article is about why people with Asperger's Syndrome are having a hard time getting jobs.
Survey of Employment of Americans with Disabilities
This is a survey of what businesses think about hiring people who have disabilities.
The DiversityInc Top 10 Companies for People With Disabilities
A list of the top 10 companies for people with disabilities to work. It also gives examples of how each company makes their work place inclusive.
The Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is a free consulting service designed to increase the employability of people with disabilities.
Think Beyond the Label
An advertising campaign making the business case for employing people with disabilities.
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) RRTC Live Webcast Series
A series of presentations about employment issues and people with disabilities. There is a schedule of upcoming presentations you can attend on the internet. There are many that have already been held but you can watch on the internet anytime.
What Can YOU Do? The Campaign for Disability Employment
This campaign helps everyone see the value that people with disabilities bring to the workplace. Anyone can join by visiting the website.
Organizations, Programs, and Projects
Beyond Expectations: Employees with Disabilities
These DVD's show profiles of people with all types of disabilities who are working. The people shown have many different kinds of jobs.
Building Sustainable Business Partnerships in Supported Employment
The purpose of this two-year training and technical assistance project in Illinois was to train 20-30 professionals from ten supported employment agencies. The intended outcome was 150 new jobs. The actual outcome was more than 200 jobs.
Disability Employment Network
A group of organizations that work together to help people with disabilities find and keep jobs. It is located in Australia.
King County School-to-Work Program
A program that helps students with disabilities find jobs and begin working as they finish high school. It is located in King County, Washington state.
Plan to Achieve Self Support (PASS)
This program helps people protect their Medicaid benefits as they prepare to get a job and earn money.
Project Income
Project Income helps people with disabilities find interesting jobs when other employment options have been unsuccessful. It is located in Maryland.
Project Search
This program helps youth, young adults and adults with disabilities to prepare for and succeed on the job. It is part of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio.
Proyecto Visión
A bilingual project to connect Latinos with disabilities to employment opportunities.
Rehabilitation Renaissance Project
An employment support program in greater Detroit area and throughout Michigan
The Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is a free consulting service designed to increase the employability of people with disabilities.
Training Grounds
A coffee bar in Jefferson County, Colorado. Its workers are people with disabilities who gain on-the-job training.
What Can YOU Do? The Campaign for Disability Employment
This campaign helps everyone see the value that people with disabilities bring to the workplace. Anyone can join by visiting the website.
Workforce Recruitment Program
This program brings federal agencies together with students who have disabilities and are looking for a summer internship or a permanent job.
Working Women With Disabilities INC
This organization helps women with disabilities who are employed. It is located in Pennsylvania.
Yachad, National Jewish Council for Disabilities
This program believes in full inclusion of Jewish people with disabilities in community life. It provides services to people of all ages.
Online Forums
Job Customization and Carving
This is an online presentation. It discusses how an employer can best match tasks with the skills and interests of the worker.
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) RRTC Live Webcast Series
A series of presentations about employment issues and people with disabilities. There is a schedule of upcoming presentations you can attend on the internet. There are many that have already been held but you can watch on the internet anytime.
Other
High School Transition that Works Learned from Project SEARCH
This book explains a program that helps students move from high school into good jobs.
Michael Callahan
Michael is the president of Marc Gold & Associates and vice-president of Employment for All. He has consulted throughout the US, Canada and Europe in the area of supported employment for the past twenty-three years.
Postsecondary Education and Employment Outcomes for Youth with Intellectual Disabilities
This fact sheet shows how postsecondary education helps people with intellectual disabilities find jobs, and earn money.


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