Dis/Ability: A Discussion on Creating More Accessible Employment for Assistance Dog Instructors with Disabilities

More than ramps: accessible health care for people with disabilities.

Sheltered employment for persons with disabilities

S employment is expanding in many countries with various types of institutions offering an increasing number of positions to persons with disabilities who wish to work. The structures involved are also showing a growing desire for recognition as full participants in the economy and as employing higher professional standards. In fact, many providers of sheltered employment are now using manageme...

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Perspectives of Development Assistance: a Case Study of Thai Disability Policy

The Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) took effect in May 2008, and the focus of this paper is on Article 23, which requires that there be international cooperation for the promotion of the CRPD in developing countries. A main research question here is how development assistance can be utilised to promote the rights of persons with disabilities in developing countries. In ...

The Impact of Temporary Assistance Programs on Disability Rolls and Re-employment

There are a variety of assistance programs to replace lost earnings, some aimed at disability or illness, some aimed at low income families, and some at both. Federal disability benefits (Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI)) receipt tends to be an all-absorbing state, with few recipients ever ending their benefits, but one that requires a difficult a...

Employment Opportunities for College Graduates with Disabilities: A Step Forward

Since data show that students with disabilities graduate from college at the same rate as their nondisabled peers, it is time to examine employment of recent graduates. Here we report on a trend toward higher levels of employment for college graduates who were integrated into "regular" educational settings since the 1990s. To illustrate this phenomenon, we summarize our findings of a study on g...