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Career > Interviewing
Handling Illegal Interview Questions About Disability
...Employers Cannot Ask Pre-Offer. The ADA prohibits employers from asking about disability, health conditions, or medical history before extending a job offer. This...and in-person interviews. Illegal questions include: Do you have a disability? What medications do you take? Have you ever filed a workers' compensation...
Career > Finding Jobs
Trial Work Periods: Testing Employment While Keeping Disability Benefits
...where you can earn any amount and keep your full disability check. Most people don't know it exists, and those...Social Security makes any determination about your disability status. Here's what counts, how to track it, and...nine-month total. The clock starts the first month you cross the earnings threshold while receiving SSDI, and...
Career > Discrimination
Isolation and Exclusion: Social Discrimination Against Disabled Employees
...happening, and you know it's connected to your disability, but you're not sure whether what you're experiencing...key is understanding which forms of exclusion cross the line from social awkwardness into actionable...actionable unless there's a clear pattern tied to your disability and it affects your work. What matters legally...
Career > Discrimination
Disability-Based Demotion: Loss of Responsibilities Due to Accommodation Requests
Requesting accommodations shouldn't cost you your job responsibilities. Here's how to recognize when changes cross into discrimination.
Career > Discrimination
Disability Harassment at Work: Recognizing and Reporting Hostile Behavior
...automatically cross the legal...targets your disability, creates a...Qualifies as Disability Harassment....Act (ADA), disability harassment...based on your disability that's severe...because of your disability, that qualifies....about your disability, even if framed...gait, or other disability-related characteristics...because of your disability Asking invasive...related to disability Blocking or...
Career > Advancement
360 Reviews and Peer Feedback When You Have a Disability
If you have a disability and you've been through...colleagues in ways your disability shapes, in ways they...them, and sometimes cross-functional collaborators....spots. In practice, when disability enters the picture,...with someone with your disability may offer feedback that's...Reviews Work and Why Disability Sometimes Distorts the...
Career > Advancement
Skills Transferability: Reframing Disability Experience as Professional Assets
...requiring "strategic thinking," "cross-functional collaboration," and "change...skills. It's the translation. Why Disability-Derived Skills Go Unrecognized. Hiring...you've developed expertise through disability experience rather than formal leadership...reframing. The default assumption is that disability represents limitation. You've internalized...
Career > Accommodations
Service Animals in the Workplace: Employer Obligations and Employee Rights
...directly related to your disability. Now you need to bring that...questions are legal. Some cross the line. Knowing the difference...tasks for a person with a disability. The tasks must be directly...be directly related to the disability. Emotional support animals,...gets to decide whether your disability is real or whether the dog...
Assistive Tech > Virtual Assistants
Voice Command Setup for Smart Home Devices: Accessibility Beyond Mobility
...better than Alexa or Siri. If your child's speech is affected by their disability, start your testing with Google. Apple Siri works best if your household...which are more limited than Alexa or Google integrations. The advantage is cross-device control: your child can issue commands from their iPad, iPhone,...
Education > Special Education
Why Special Education Looks Different in Every State
...reflect protections your old state added on top of federal law. When you cross a state line, the additional layer stays behind. What travels is the federal...again. Why Your Child Might Not Qualify in the New State. IDEA defines 13 disability categories but leaves...
Financial > Housing Assistance
Using ABLE Accounts to Pay for Housing Without Losing SSI or Medicaid
...account specifically so your family member with a disability can cover essential expenses without losing benefits....resource limit for individuals ($3,000 for couples). Cross that threshold and benefits get suspended or terminated....ABLE accounts can only be used for qualified disability expenses, defined broadly as expenses that help...
News > Sports
What the 2026 Winter Paralympics Meant for the Disability Community
...won four individual golds, sweeping biathlon and cross-country across nine days. Oksana Masters won her...precision rifle shooting under physical stress; cross-country strips the shooting out and turns entirely...transfer automatically between them. For decades, the disability community has had to push back...