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Lived employment experiences of college students and graduates with physical disabilities in the United States
- Authors:
- KIM Mikyong Minsun, WILLIAMS Brenda C.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 27(6), 2012, pp.837-852.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
While persons with disabilities are legislatively protected in the USA, they continue to experience high rates of unemployment. The aim of this phenomenological study was to focus on the employment experiences of college students with physical disabilities seeking employment opportunities after graduation in the USA. Data was collected using semi-structured, open-ended interviews with 8 college seniors and recent graduates with physical disabilities at an urban university located in the mid-Atlantic region of the USA. The findings revealed 6 major thematic areas: disability and impairment; accessibility; reasonable accommodations; discrimination; barriers and hindrances; and graduate or professional education. All the participants noted that workplace accessibility and accommodation are major concerns when they apply for a job. Their viewpoints or attitudes are diverse and range from pain to pride and from experiences of denied accommodation to support. Their major areas of concern are their own marketable skills and credentials as well as accessibility and accommodation in workplaces. Continued education beyond the baccalaureate is a priority for many participants rather than an immediate transition to work, and the Office of Disability and professors were considered important advising agencies.
Housing and the disability equality duty: a guide to the disability equality duty and Disability Discrimination Act 2005 for the social housing sector
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 83p.
- Place of publication:
- Stratford upon Avon
This Guidance is for those who plan, manage or deliver social sector housing. It explains the new rights and duties introduced by the Disability Discrimination Act 2005, which amended the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA).
Working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people: people with physical disabilities: Doug's story
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Place of publication:
- London
In this film we meet Doug, a gay man with physical disabilities who is in residential accommodation eight miles away from his friends and family. Doug carefully considered when to ‘come out’ within residential care and explains that this is a continual process because of the high turnover of residential care staff.
Discrimination and insensitivity about Doug’s being ‘out’ to other residents and suggestions by his providers to ‘keep quiet’ around other residents are highlighted in the film. Doug feels he has little opportunity to meet other gay people, so he feels isolated and cut off from the gay community.
Doug believes that a cultural shift and change in attitudes in social care is vital in order to provide relevant care for LGBT people. He also feels that direct payments are only one part of a solution to offer more choice and control to the user of services.