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Lifestyle > Independence
Gracie Gets An Everlasting Smile
...August, I had my facial nerve reconstruction....my facial nerve reconstruction....found out my facial nerve had been...my facial nerve had been permanently...the damaged facial nerve called...damaged facial nerve called cross-facial...nerve called cross-facial nerve...called cross-facial nerve reanimation....cross-facial nerve reanimation....cross-facial nerve reanimation. My parents...director of the Facial Paralysis Institute...
Career > Interviewing
Handling Illegal Interview Questions About Disability
What employers cannot ask before a job offer and how to respond when they cross the line without losing the opportunity.
Career > Finding Jobs
Trial Work Periods: Testing Employment While Keeping Disability Benefits
...months in 2026, stop for a year, then work three more months in 2027. All five count toward your nine-month total. The clock starts the first month you cross the earnings threshold while receiving SSDI, and it runs for a rolling 60-month period. Once you've used nine trial work months within that 60-month...
Career > Discrimination
Isolation and Exclusion: Social Discrimination Against Disabled Employees
...social exclusion of disabled employees can be documented, escalated, and challenged under federal law. The key is understanding which forms of exclusion cross the line from social awkwardness into actionable discrimination. The Difference Between Social Events and Career Opportunities. Not every instance of...
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
...harassment. A manager who's short with everyone, a coworker who doesn't understand your needs, or a single thoughtless comment doesn't automatically cross the legal line. But when behavior targets your disability, creates a hostile environment, and meets specific legal criteria, it's harassment under the...
Career > Advancement
360 Reviews and Peer Feedback When You Have a Disability
...fuller picture of your performance by gathering input from multiple sources: your manager, your peers, direct reports if you have them, and sometimes cross-functional collaborators. In theory, that breadth corrects for any single person's blind spots. In practice, when disability enters the picture, the...
Career > Advancement
Skills Transferability: Reframing Disability Experience as Professional Assets
...failure points and built contingencies. These are the exact capabilities organizations claim to want when they post jobs requiring "strategic thinking," "cross-functional collaboration," and "change management." The gap isn't your skills. It's the translation. Why Disability-Derived Skills Go Unrecognized....
Career > Accommodations
Service Animals in the Workplace: Employer Obligations and Employee Rights
...directly related to your disability. Now you need to bring that animal to work, and your employer has questions. Some of those questions are legal. Some cross the line. Knowing the difference matters, because once you request an accommodation involving a service animal, the law is specific about what your...
Assistive Tech > Virtual Assistants
ChatGPT and Claude for Task Breakdown: How AI Helps with Executive Function
...assume the problem is organization. It's not. The problem is that the distance between "I should do this" and "I am doing this" feels impossible to cross. Conversational AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude work differently. They don't require you to build a system, set up a workflow, or plan anything in...
Assistive Tech > Virtual Assistants
Voice Command Setup for Smart Home Devices: Accessibility Beyond Mobility
...HomePods). Siri's environmental control requires HomeKit-compatible devices, which are more limited than Alexa or Google integrations. The advantage is cross-device control: your child can issue commands from their iPad, iPhone, or Apple Watch without needing a separate smart speaker. Test before...
Education > Special Education
New Hampshire Shifted the Due Process Burden to Schools in IEP Disputes. Is Your State Next?
...evidence is unclear. For parents who can't afford attorneys, who don't have access to independent evaluations, who don't know how to subpoena records or cross-examine witnesses, burden of proof is often the reason they lose before they start. What Burden of Proof Means in a Due Process Hearing. Burden of proof...