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Functional Resumes vs. Chronological Resumes for Employment Gaps
Career > Finding Jobs

Functional Resumes vs. Chronological Resumes for Employment Gaps

By Oliver Bennett
...your main problem is making your work history easy...honesty. It's a strategic decision about where you want the...it, and how to make a decision that fits your situation....and dates first. Your skills emerge from context as...organizes content around skill categories instead of...difference. You open with a skills summary that establishes...
Pre-Employment Disability Discrimination: Illegal Questions and Hiring Bias
Career > Discrimination

Pre-Employment Disability Discrimination: Illegal Questions and Hiring Bias

By Oliver Smith
...clear line between what employers can ask before making a job offer and what they can ask after. Before...functions of the job. They can ask about your skills, experience, and ability to complete specific tasks....hiding information. It's about ensuring the hiring decision is based on your ability to do the work, not assumptions...
Fostering a Sense of Belonging for People with Disabilities in Society
Social Engagement > Discrimination

Fostering a Sense of Belonging for People with Disabilities in Society

By Isabella Lewis
...opportunity to contribute their unique perspectives, skills, and talents. Inclusion promotes a sense of belonging...education Involve people with disabilities in decision-making and leadership roles ...education Involve people with disabilities in decision-making and leadership roles ...
Job Interview Skills: A Vital Key for Special Needs Success
Career > Interviewing

Job Interview Skills: A Vital Key for Special Needs Success

By Daniel Thompson
...develop robust job interview skills - a fundamental key to achieving...imbue confidence in their decision, assuring them that you are...control and preparedness, making the interview scenario less...Honing in on communication skills suitable for your ability can...ensures your abilities and skills are perceived accurately...
Ten Tips for Playdate Inclusion Among Kids of All Abilities
Social Engagement > Inclusion

Ten Tips for Playdate Inclusion Among Kids of All Abilities

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...to practice critical social skills on which future relationships...confidence; improving social decision making; and practicing skills...improving social decision making; and practicing skills in an...decision making; and practicing skills in an adult supervised yet...encourage the building of critical skills and friendships. The most important...
Creating a Legal Plan for Your Child's Future
Legal > Advocacy

Creating a Legal Plan for Your Child's Future

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...created a solid foundation of ethics, morals, and decision-making skills for our children to take with them...solid foundation of ethics, morals, and decision-making skills for our children to take with them out into...foundation of ethics, morals, and decision-making skills for our children to take with them out into the...
Executive Coaching and Career Counseling for Professionals with Disabilities
Career > Advancement

Executive Coaching and Career Counseling for Professionals with Disabilities

By Dr. Evelyn Mercer
...and supported employment. Job coaches help with skills training, workplace integration, and on-the-job...organizational navigation. It's designed for professionals making high-stakes decisions about their careers. But...designed for professionals making high-stakes decisions about their careers. But most executive coaches...
Free vs. Paid AI Assistants for Cognitive Support: ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Compared
Assistive Tech > Virtual Assistants

Free vs. Paid AI Assistants for Cognitive Support: ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Compared

By Leonard Thompson
...overwhelming tasks, or Claude to work through decisions that feel impossible to make. These AI assistants...pre-structured input is exactly the executive function skill they don't have. AI assistants flip the model....noted that ChatGPT "helps clients externalize decision trees they can't hold in working memory." That's...
Self-Advocacy for Adults with Disabilities: How to Speak Up in Medical Work and Daily Life
News > Advocacy

Self-Advocacy for Adults with Disabilities: How to Speak Up in Medical Work and Daily Life

By Amelia Harper
Self-advocacy is the skill of communicating your needs, making...skill of communicating your needs, making decisions about your life, and asserting...of communicating your needs, making decisions about your life, and asserting your...have them. Here's how to build those skills in the situations where they matter...
Preparing Your Teen to Lead Their Own IEP Meeting
Legal > Advocacy

Preparing Your Teen to Lead Their Own IEP Meeting

By Ethan Parker
...about teaching them to speak up in a system that will spend the next decade making decisions about their education, employment, and services. The first time...teaching them to speak up in a system that will spend the next decade making decisions about their education, employment, and services. The first time your teen...
Financial Planning for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: Supported Decision-Making for Money
Financial > Financial Planning

Financial Planning for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: Supported Decision-Making for Money

By James Williams
...dozens of decisions about their...financial decisions on behalf...supported decision-making, where...decision-making, where adults...with money decisions. Most do....Supported Decision-Making Looks...Decision-Making Looks Like...Supported decision-making (SDM)...decision-making (SDM) is...disabilities keep decision-making authority...decision-making authority...implement decisions, but they...
Power of Attorney vs. Guardianship: Less Restrictive Alternatives for Age 18
Financial > Financial Planning

Power of Attorney vs. Guardianship: Less Restrictive Alternatives for Age 18

By James Williams
...18. Legal decision-making authority...decision-making authority...medical decisions independently,...supported decision-making (SDM)...decision-making (SDM) preserve...cannot make decisions for themselves...make those decisions on their...medical decisions, including...permission Make decisions about their...guardian's decisions, even when...removes all decision-making authority....decision-making authority....

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