Taking Control: Career Tips for People with Disabilities

The Disability Community has always been woefully under-employed, with little change following the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. Job discrimination for people with disabilities remains extremely high—as much as 75 per cent. Thus, the bigger job of educating the business world falls to a smaller minority of workers with disabilities. That in itself, is a full-time job.

To learn how to better "communicate" your skills and unique potential, see the video stream below. Taking Control: Career Tips for People with Disabilities provides excellent, practical strategies for obtaining active, gainful employment. The video is presented by experts in the field of disability employment, and is produced with funding provided by The JM Foundation, New York, 2002.

Employment Video: (running time is 28:00)
http://video1.ucpnet.org/ramgen/realvideo/ucp/ucp37.rm