Two of the keynote speakers at the Indiana Governor’s Council for People with Disabilities annual convention held earlier in this month in Indianapolis were of the variety one would expect at a conference with the theme, “Celebrating Community.” National Council on Disability executive director Aaron Bishop has spent his entire professional career advocating for people [...]
Appy Namatovu Ssempala has worked as a receptionist for three years now at the National Union of Disabled Persons (NUDIPU) in her native country of Uganda. She greets people and helps direct them to the appropriate offices, among other duties. The fact that she cannot hear or speak does not create a negative first impression [...]
A proposal by the U.S. Department of Labor that asks government contractors to set goals for hiring people with disabilities is being praised as a major opportunity for integrating more of these people into the work force. Some 200,00 businesses count on federal government contracts for at least a portion of their revenue, according to [...]
The news that unemployment in the United States dropped below 9% for the first time in two years included a corresponding dip in the jobless rate for people with disabilities. The U.S. Department of Labor’s November report said unemployment among these people fell to 13%, its lowest rate since 2009. While the decline in joblessness [...]
Yesterday we highlighted a new program in Arizona that put high school students with disabilities in competitive athletics alongside and against their peers. But football fields, race tracks, and golf courses are not the only arenas for inclusion of people with disabilities in extracurricular activities that help teens build self-esteem, embrace uniqueness, and adopt a [...]
The Arizona school system has partnered with the state’s Special Olympics organization on a unique program that brings students with disabilities together with other high school students in competitive athletics. Launched just this past June, the Unified Sports® program was constructed as an opportunity for students to interact with peers with whom they share school [...]
There are a myriad of worthy stories from this year’s United Nations’ International Day of Persons with Disabilities in addition to what was posted yesterday. While it isn’t possible to cover all of them, there were two major announcements from December 3 commemorations that initially slipped through the cracks of the time-cyberspace continuum that merit [...]
Saturday was the United Nation’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities, and in his official message introducing this year’s theme, “Together for a better world for all, including people with disabilities in development,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged countries to continue including the voices of these people in decisions affecting societal progress. The Secretary-General, who has [...]
Many career advisors, including The Career Key blogger Lawrence K. Jones, will tell you the most desired job situations are the ones that make “the best use of one’s abilities and gives one a feeling of accomplishment.” As the state of Connecticut struggled to restore power to 831,000 customers following the October 28 nor’easter, a [...]
Over the monthlong span from Black Friday until Christmas, stores of all types and sizes hire temporary employees to help keep the surge of customers from queueing up too deeply in their velvet-rope mazes. In her “Ask Kim” column, Money Smart Solutions writer Kim Lankford reports that three retail giants — Macy’s, Toys “R” Us, [...]