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Legal > Government Benefits
Medicaid Waiver Waiting Lists: How to Join and What to Expect
...respite care, home modifications, adaptive equipment, day programs, and supported employment. These are the services that allow people with disabilities...care, home modifications, adaptive equipment, day programs, and supported employment. These are the services that allow people with disabilities to live at...
Financial > Financial Planning
Power of Attorney vs. Guardianship: Less Restrictive Alternatives for Age 18
...have seen coming: how do you continue providing support without stripping away their autonomy? Most families...not the right one. Power of attorney (POA) and supported decision-making (SDM) preserve your adult child's...permission Make decisions about their education or employment The guardian holds those rights. Your child becomes...
Career > Skills Training
Pre-ETS for Students with IEPs: Workplace Skills Before Graduation
...These services, called Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS),...build job skills while school supports are still in place. Pre-ETS...academics, independent living, and employment. Pre-ETS delivers specific...means your student gets more support, not duplicated effort. What...workplaces that match their IEP employment goals. Work-based learning...
Career > Skills Training
Customer Service Skills for Employment: Training and Accommodations
Customer service roles open the door to entry-level employment across retail, hospitality, call centers, and front-desk positions: all...accommodations can reduce sensory overload and provide scripts or visual supports that make interactions more predictable. When you know what training addresses...
Career > Interviewing
Mock Interviews and Interview Coaching for Neurodivergent Job Seekers
...Services Every state operates a VR program that provides free or low-cost employment support, including interview coaching, for people with disabilities. Services...state operates a VR program that provides free or low-cost employment support, including interview coaching, for people with disabilities. Services vary...
Career > Finding Jobs
Supported Employment Services: Job Coaching and Placement Assistance
...where most employment systems...short. Supported employment...Supported employment is built...structured support that helps...long-term. That support comes in...sustained employment: real jobs...community, with support that adjusts...placement. What Supported Employment...Supported Employment Means....Means. Supported employment...Supported employment programs...integrated employment," which...training and support during...Ongoing support includes...
Career > Finding Jobs
Ticket to Work Program: Using SSA Benefits to Find Employment
...can sustain employment is a risk...provides free employment services to...placement support from approved...progress toward employment. If work doesn't...pathway to test employment without dismantling...dismantling the supports that keep...to explore employment but need support...employment but need support and protection...part of what Employment Networks provide....provide. What Employment Networks...
Career > Advancement
Executive Coaching and Career Counseling for Professionals with Disabilities
...focus on entry-level employment, not senior-level...professionals who can support high-level career...Coaches. The disability employment support system is...disability employment support system is built primarily...for entry-level and supported employment. Job...entry-level and supported employment. Job coaches help...integration, and on-the-job support. That's essential...
News > Advocacy
The Federal Agency That Funds Independence for People with Disabilities Is Being Eliminated. Here's What Families Need to Know.
...Independent Living, caregiver support programs, disability research,...services, home and community-based support, and advocacy infrastructure....community-based programs, supporting more than 12.8 million...National Family Caregiver Support Program: Provides respite...research on assistive technology, employment outcomes, and policies that...
News > Advocacy
After High School: What Families Need to Know About Transition Planning
...education. No more IEP. The support structure that's been there...postsecondary goals in education, employment, and independent living. That...college, vocational training, supported employment, community living....vocational training, supported employment, community living. This planning...need to hold a job? What supports will they need to live as...
Legal > Advocacy
Supported Decision-Making: An Alternative to Guardianship
...foundation of supported decision-making....role as a supporter without...nothing. Supported decision-making...path. What Supported Decision-Making...Decision-Making Is. Supported decision-making...rights. The supporter doesn't...housing, employment, education....They choose supporters they trust:...mentors. Those supporters help them...recognize supported decision-making...enacted its Supported Decision-Making...Guardianship. Supported decision-making...
Assistive Tech > Software
Screen Reader Software for Students: JAWS vs NVDA vs VoiceOver Compared
...more on what operating system your child's school uses, what the district supports for accommodations, and whether you're planning for elementary learning...accommodations, and whether you're planning for elementary learning or eventual employment. Many blind students end up fluent in more than one screen reader, which...