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Assisting Law Students With Disabilities In The 21st Century, David Jaffe Nov 2016

Assisting Law Students With Disabilities In The 21st Century, David Jaffe

David Jaffe

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Engaging Individuals And Families In Conversations Around Employment, John Kramer, Amie Lulinski, Thinkwork! At The Institute For Community Inclusion At Umass Boston Oct 2016

Engaging Individuals And Families In Conversations Around Employment, John Kramer, Amie Lulinski, Thinkwork! At The Institute For Community Inclusion At Umass Boston

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Family engagement is key to successful employment and life planning, with parents and siblings often leading their family members with disabilities on the path to employment through their own role modeling and encouragement. Despite what literature says about the true importance of family engagement, many parents lack the knowledge needed to meaningfully participate in employment planning. One critical gap is thinking about financial well-being for their family member with a disability. This session will provide an overview of themes and strategies identified through research on engaging individuals and families in employment planning, followed by a discussion on key gaps around …


Research To Practice: The 2014–2015 National Survey Of Community Rehabilitation Providers Report 1: Overview Of Services, Trends, And Provider Characteristics, Daria Domin, John Butterworth Jan 2016

Research To Practice: The 2014–2015 National Survey Of Community Rehabilitation Providers Report 1: Overview Of Services, Trends, And Provider Characteristics, Daria Domin, John Butterworth

Research to Practice Series, Institute for Community Inclusion

This brief is based on the 2014–2015 National Survey of Community Rehabilitation Providers (CRPs) funded by the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. This brief presents findings on people with all disabilities and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who receive employment and non-work services from community rehabilitation providers (CRPs). Previous national surveys of CRPs were conducted by the Institute for Community Inclusion in 2002–2003 and 2010–2011, and also gathered data on provider services for individuals with disabilities (Metzel et al., 2007; Domin & Butterworth, 2012). This brief will incorporate some of those findings and compare them against the …