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Career > Skills Training
Pre-ETS for Students with IEPs: Workplace Skills Before Graduation
...workplace readiness training, job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences,...services your student can request. Job exploration counseling helps students identify...identify interests, strengths, and career pathways that match their skills....their skills. This isn't a one-time career assessment. It's ongoing counseling...
Career > Finding Jobs
Ticket to Work Program: Using SSA Benefits to Find Employment
...work attempts. You get job training, career counseling, and placement support...actual value proposition. Not "free career services" as a standalone offer, but...specific job goal already identified. Career exploration and vocational assessment...job goal already identified. Career exploration and vocational assessment are part...
Career > Skills Training
From School to Work: How Students with Disabilities Can Build Career Skills Before Graduation
...category helps families know what to request. Job exploration counseling introduces students to career options...exploration counseling introduces students to career options that match their interests and abilities....their interests and abilities. This is more than a career quiz. It includes learning about different industries,...
Career > Skills Training
Unleashing the Potential of Individuals with Special Needs through Career and Skills Training
The Value of Career and Skills Training. Career...Career and Skills Training. Career and skills training programs...they can thrive in fulfilling careers that match their abilities...Strengths. The first step in career and skills training is identifying...process. Assessments and hands-on exploration of different job skills can...
Financial > Loans
Spread Your Wings: Financing Opportunities for Special Needs Students
...realm of higher education opens a world of opportunities for learning, exploration, and self-development. However, for students with special needs, the journey...criteria, such as maintaining a particular GPA, aiming for a specific career path, or having a certain...
Career > Finding Jobs
Explaining Employment Gaps Without Disclosing Disability
...hybrid format does both: skills up top, work history below, with a one-line explanation for any gap longer than six months. Frame the gap as a period of focus....a period of focus. If you took time off to manage a health condition, "career development" isn't dishonest. You spent that time...
Career > Discrimination
Disability-Based Termination: Recognizing Wrongful Discharge
...never heard about before, or said the position was being eliminated even though someone else is now doing your job. The timing feels wrong. The explanation doesn't add up. You're wondering whether what happened crossed a line from a lawful employment decision into illegal discrimination. Here's how to...
Career > Advancement
Speaking Up When Disability Isn't the Problem But Gets Blamed Anyway
...scapegoating. It happens when managers use disability as a convenient explanation for problems that have nothing to do with it. Sometimes it's unconscious...conversation you need to have. Why Managers Default to Disability as an Explanation. It's easier to point to disability than to admit a workflow is broken....
Career > Accommodations
The Interactive Process: What Happens After You Request a Workplace Accommodation
...submitted your request, who you submitted it to, and when (or if) you received a response. If your employer ignores your request or delays without explanation, that can be evidence of bad faith in an EEOC complaint. Your Employer Can Request Medical Documentation. Your employer can ask for documentation...
Career > Accommodations
Writing a Medical Necessity Letter for Workplace Accommodations
...specific boundaries around what information they can require. Employers can ask for: Confirmation that a disability exists under ADA definitions Explanation of functional limitations in the workplace Description of how the requested accommodation addresses those limitations Employers cannot demand:...
Career > Discrimination
How to File an EEOC Disability Discrimination Complaint: A Step-by-Step Guide
...for a promotion that went to a less-qualified colleague after you disclosed your diagnosis. Maybe your accommodation request was denied with no explanation. Maybe you were let go within weeks of raising a disability-related concern. You suspect discrimination, and you want to do something about it, but...
Career > Skills Training
Understanding Workplace Culture and Unwritten Rules
Strategies for navigating implicit workplace norms, social hierarchies, and office politics when neurodivergence makes these challenging.