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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...category helps families know what to request. Job exploration counseling introduces students to career options...experiences range from informational interviews and job shadowing to...
Career > Skills Training
Unleashing the Potential of Individuals with Special Needs through Career and Skills Training
...maximize their potential for success. Acquiring job skills empowers individuals with special needs...the training process. Assessments and hands-on exploration of different job skills can reveal hidden talents....Assessments and hands-on exploration of different job skills can reveal hidden talents. For example,...
Parenting > The Early Years
How to Support Your Typical Child When Their Sibling Has Special Needs
...count as much as their sibling's. Your job isn't to make things perfectly equal....one child requires more care. Your job is to make your typical child visible...times in a row. What Age-Appropriate Explanations Do. Explaining a sibling's disability...ages 3 to 6, need concrete, simple explanations. "Your brother's brain works differently,...
Legal > Discrimination
Your Employer Denied Your Accommodation Request: Know Your Rights and Next Steps
...your limitations, what you need to perform your job, and what accommodations might work. Your employer...functional limitations, discusses which essential job functions are affected, considers the specific...that conversation, sends a one-line denial with no explanation,...
Parenting > Adulthood
How Job Coaches Help Young Adults with Disabilities Succeed in the Workplace
...That's where job coaches come in....coaches come in. Job coaches aren't...who teach the job, translate the...cost, and how job carving creates...can't. What a Job Coach Does. A...Coach Does. A job coach is a trained...adult at their job site. They don't...person and by job complexity, but...coach breaks down job tasks into steps...follow. If the job...
Global Insights > Employment
When (and How) to Tell an Employer About Your Disability: A Decision Guide
...accommodations that make your job sustainable, but it also exposes...ability to perform essential job functions without one. Your employer...a disability before making a job offer. They can ask whether you...whether you can perform the job's essential functions, with or...questions if those questions are job-related and consistent with business...
Legal > Government Benefits
Maryland Is Cutting $250 Million in Disability Services. Families Have Days to Push Back.
...disabilities. In fiscal 2025, 19,100 Marylanders received services through DDA waivers. Services include personal care, residential support, day programs, job coaching, and respite care. Unlike other Medicaid programs, waivers are not entitlements. States control enrollment and funding. Maryland has faced chronic...
Financial > Government Benefits
Medicaid Waiver Waiting Lists: How to Access Services While You Wait (and How to Jump the Line)
...Waiver services typically include: Personal care assistance (bathing, dressing, toileting) Respite care for family caregivers Supported employment and job coaching Adult day programs Home modifications and assistive technology Residential habilitation Federal law doesn't require states to offer waivers,...
Education > Higher Education
College Programs for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: What CTPs Offer
...on-campus employment, or partnerships with local businesses. Students practice job skills in real work environments, with support from job coaches or program...Students practice job skills in real work environments, with support from job coaches or program staff. The goal is paid employment after program completion,...
Special Needs > Cystic Fibrosis
Building a Sustainable Airway Clearance Routine for Your Child with CF
...oscillation vest therapy, oscillating positive expiratory pressure devices like Aerobika or Acapella, and manual chest physiotherapy. Each does the same job of loosening and moving mucus, but the day-to-day experience of using them is completely different. That difference determines whether a routine holds...
Special Needs > Asperger Syndrome
Asperger Syndrome in Adults: Navigating a Late Diagnosis
...syndrome, or autism spectrum disorder. Now you're here, trying to figure out what this means. Not in the abstract. What it means for you, right now, with a job and relationships and decades of experiences that suddenly need a different frame. A late diagnosis doesn't erase what came before, but it recontextualizes...
Special Needs > Asperger Syndrome
Employment and Asperger Syndrome: Workplace Rights, Accommodations, and Strategies for Success
You're qualified for your job. You know your field. But the open office is a sensory minefield, the informal...accommodations are modifications or adjustments that enable you to perform your job. They aren't perks or special treatment. They're structural changes that remove...