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Networking Events for Professionals with Disabilities: Finding Accessible Opportunities
Mainstream professional networking events promise accessibility....rooms lack captioning, or the networking reception assumes everyone...asterisk. Why Disability-Focused Networking Works Differently. Traditional...Differently. Traditional networking assumes you'll navigate inaccessible...appearing difficult. That's not networking, that's an obstacle course....
Career > Finding Jobs
American Job Centers: Free Employment Services by State
...you've already hit the standard barriers: job boards that list hundreds of irrelevant postings, applications that vanish into automated systems, and networking advice that assumes you have a network to tap. What most adults with disabilities don't know is that there's a federally-funded system designed specifically...
Career > Finding Jobs
Informational Interviews: Low-Stakes Networking for Job Seekers with Disabilities
How to request and conduct informational interviews to learn about careers, build connections, and practice professional conversation.
Career > Advancement
Succession Planning and Disability: Positioning Yourself as Next in Line
...remotely for accommodation reasons, you're not in the office for impromptu strategy sessions. If fatigue or mobility limitations affect after-hours networking, you're absent from the social settings where leadership impressions form. If you need advance notice for schedule changes, last-minute "high-visibility"...
Career > Advancement
Professional Conferences and Travel Accommodations for Career Networking
How to request conference accommodations, navigate travel logistics, and network when traditional activities aren't accessible.
Career > Interviewing
Using Informational Interviews to Build Confidence Before the Real Thing
How informational interviews serve as deliberate practice for disability job seekers and convert into real networking opportunities.
Career > Advancement
Building Professional Networks When Traditional Networking Doesn't Work
Most professional networking advice assumes you can walk into a room, introduce...It's simply not written for you. Why Traditional Networking Fails Many People with Disabilities. Research...asynchronous format removes most of what makes in-person networking hard. You can read someone's profile before...
Career > Interviewing
Uncovering the Invisible Job Market for Disabled Job Seekers
Empower disabled job seekers through networking, strengths, rights, options, positivity, and success.
Career > Discrimination
Battling Discrimination: Winning Moves for Persons with Special Needs in the Workforce
...that consists of both individual and organizational solutions. On a personal level, building resilience is paramount. Resilience can be fostered by networking with others who have similar experiences, thereby forming a supportive community to champion one other. Secondly, seeking professional advice, such...
Assistive Tech > Apps
Special Needs App: Dragon Dictation
...is powered by Dragon Naturally Speaking and allows the user to speak the content of emails, text messages, notes or even status updates for social networking sites and immediately see the text appear on the screen. This is a handy app for children and adults who have difficulties with fine motor skills...
Education > K-12
Homeschooling and the Autism Spectrum Child
...of families who were homeschooling, one for different reasons, and another because of the same issues as I was now facing. The social resource of networking cannot be underestimated, and speaking to these homeschooling parents, I quickly realized that home education was a practical option, and unlike...
Parenting > Support Groups
Support for Special Needs Parents
...with disabilities are becoming more common, and it is a resource of which every special needs parent has the option to take part. Support, guidance, networking opportunities, and accessibility to resources are some foundations of these support groups — if there is not one in your area, it's likely time to...