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Employee Self-Advocacy: How To Talk To Your Employer About Your Disability

Not everyone feels comfortable sharing their personal lives with their employers, particularly when it comes to health issues and disability. Legally, you are in no way obligated to disclose your disability to your employer, or even to a potential employer during an interview. It is also illegal for employers to ask about it outright, but once you bring it up, the topic is fair game. Continue reading Employee Self-Advocacy: How To Talk To Your Employer About Your Disability →

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This Fairhaven native actor proves minorities and people with disabilities can take center stage

By Seth Chitwood, Standard-Times

FAIRHAVEN — Brennan Srisirikul knew about the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, but never had the confidence to submit a film — especially since he’s never made one. But after a crazy year, he knew it was time to go for it. Continue reading This Fairhaven native actor proves minorities and people with disabilities can take center stage →

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M-Enabling Virtual Leadership

Connect with #a11y leaders and discuss solutions and innovations that will advance the lives of seniors and users of all abilities at #menablingbriefing21- April 21! Continue reading M-Enabling Virtual Leadership →

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Med Student’s Disability Helps Him Connect With Patients

By Nick Romanenko

Tom Pisano has been working on both a medical degree and doctoral degree in neuroscience to help to study and treat conditions like his own.

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13 Practical Ways To Help Employees Adapt To New Technology

Tech continues to play a larger and larger role in businesses and industries of all stripes. As companies bring on more and newer technology to help improve productivity, employees who were initially trained on older systems or who are new to a higher-tech workplace may struggle to keep up or even resist using the new tech at all.

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What To Look For In A Disability Organization

There’s an important question that may get too little attention in the world of disability services, activism, and culture. If we really care about people with disabilities and disability issues, we should all do better than just tossing pocket change in every fundraising bucket we see, or signing up for every walkathon a coworker’s kid puts in front of us.

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So You Want A Diverse Workforce? Then Truly Welcome People With Disabilities

About 1 in 4 Americans live with a disability. Here’s how organizations can become disability confident.

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Why TV Writer Katherine Beattie Stopped Hiding Her Disability: ‘We Need Disabled People In All Levels’

By Allison Norlian for Forbes.

These days, work looks a lot different for Katherine Beattie. A producer on CBS’s hit procedural drama NCIS: New Orleans, Beattie and the rest of her colleagues had to adjust their storytelling to fit Covid-19 protocols.

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Job Security Was Already Precarious For Individuals With Disabilities. Then COVID Hit.

Before the coronavirus pandemic, Evelyn Ramundo was a secretary at a group home in New Jersey that is run by a nonprofit focused on housing and employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

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Simple Accommodations Lead to Workplace Success

Studies show that companies with a diverse and inclusive workforce benefit from greater employee retention and higher productivity rates. But some people think that accommodations are always expensive and complicated.

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