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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.
Raised horizons
- Author:
- SALE Anabel Unity
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.5.07, 2007, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author reports on how measures to help disabled people into work are being hindered by employers' attitudes and a lack of confidence among those wanting to work.
Constrained labour: material employment when children have disabilities
- Authors:
- GORDON Meg, ROSENMAN Linda, CUSKELLY Monica
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 20(3), May 2007, pp.236-246.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study compared the workforce participation levels of mothers with and without dependent children with disabilities to provide recent data that could be considered representative of the range of families with dependent children with disabilities. Secondary cross-sectional data from a representative Australian household survey were used and subject to quantitative analysis. Significantly lower levels of workforce participation were found among mothers of children with disabilities compared with mothers without children with disabilities. There was no evidence of a lesser desire to work. Mother's partnership status and having a child with a severe/profound activity limitation each impacted on the nature of the differences in level of workforce participation. The results raise concerns about the particularly low levels of part-time work among some mothers of children with disabilities, and about the impact of having a child with severe/profound activity limitations. Questions are raised about the impact of sole parent status in combination with having a child with a disability.
The education and employment of disabled young people: frustrated ambition
- Author:
- BURCHARDT Tania
- Publisher:
- Policy Press; Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 57p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Developing positive aspirations is a key factor in securing good educational and occupational outcomes, and an important component of autonomy. This study compared the aspirations of young disabled and non-disabled people, and examined the extent to which those aspirations were achieved.
Poverty and disability: a survey of the literature
- Author:
- ELWAN Ann
- Publisher:
- World Bank
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 48p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
This review summarizes the literature on disability and its relationship to poverty, including education, employment, income, and access to basic social services. Despite the dearth of formal analysis, it is clear that in developing countries, as in more developed areas, disabled people (and their families) are more likely than the rest of the population to live in poverty. It is a two-way relationship -- disability adds to the risk of poverty, and conditions of poverty increase the risk of disability. Disability in developing countries stems largely from preventable impairments associated with communicable, maternal and perinatal disease and injuries, and prevention has to remain a primary focus. An increasing emphasis on community based participatory rehabilitation reflects growing recognition of the inadequacy of past official programs, particularly involving specialized and exclusionary institutions.
A vocational rehabilitation intervention for young adults with physical disabilities: participants' perception of beneficial attributes
- Author:
- BAL M.I.
- Journal article citation:
- Child: Care, Health and Development, 43(1), 2017, pp.114-125.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Background: This paper is about a program that supports work participation amongst young adults with chronic physical disabilities. The study aims to explore the barriers and facilitators they experienced in finding and maintaining employment after starting the program, the participant-perceived beneficial attributes of the program and participants' recommendations for additional intervention components. Methods: Semi-structured interviews (n = 19) were held with former intervention participants. Interviews were recorded and transcribed ad verbatim. Themes were derived using the phenomenological approach. Results: Physical functions and capacities, supervisor's attitude, self-esteem and self-efficacy and openness and assertiveness were experienced barriers and facilitators for finding and maintaining employment. Improvement of self-promoting skills and disclosure skills through job interview-training, increased self-esteem or self-efficacy through peer-support, a suitable job through job placement, improvement of work ability through arrangement of adjusted work conditions and change of supervisor's attitude through education provided to the supervisor were perceived as beneficial attributes of the intervention. Respondents recommended to incorporate assertiveness and openness skills training into future intervention programs. Conclusions: The findings suggest that programs supporting work participation should be designed to provide challenging, real-world experiential opportunities that provide young adults with physical disabilities with new insights, self-efficacy and life skills. Also, such programs should facilitate context centred learning. Former intervention participants evaluated job-interview training, sharing learning and social experiences with peers, job placement, arrangement of adjusted work conditions and education as beneficial attributes of the ‘At Work’ program. In addition, they recommended incorporating more training on assertiveness and disclosure. (Edited publisher abstract)
Closing the disability and employment gap: a case study report
- Author:
- VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DISABILITY GROUP
- Publisher:
- Voluntary Organisations Disability Group
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 20
- Place of publication:
- London
In response to the recent green paper on work, health and disability, this report outlines some practical solutions to closing the disability employment gap. It highlights why it is important that action is taken now and the looks at the challenges that could undermine these aims. These include austerity measures and changes to specialist employment policy. The report then presents three brief examples of successful employment and training schemes delivered by specialist disability organisations. They cover the areas of: supported employment schemes and social enterprise; disability organisations leading by example and employing disabled people; and supported internships and specialist further education. The report includes recommendations for government, employers and care providers to boost employment for working-age disabled people. (Edited publisher abstract)
Measuring support provisions for people living with disabilities in South Asia: an accessibility index
- Authors:
- AHMAD Mahtab, AHMAD Mokbul Morshed
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Service Research, 37(4), July 2011, pp.439-455.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The vast majority of people with mild and moderate physical disabilities in South Asia are entitled to the locally available rights-based support provisions for enhancing the economic capacity of the poor. However, there is no proper mechanism to gauge specifically the trend of inclusion on a regular basis of disabled people in such provision. The purpose of this article is to propose an index to measure the level of achievements of disabled poor in rights-based economic empowerment support entitlements. Following a review of the empowerment support provisions in public policies, 5 components were chosen for the index: ability; employment; vocational skill; microcredit; and safety net provisions. The developed index was tested in 245 individuals with physical disabilities in 2 districts in Pakistan. The results demonstrate that, despite promising policy statements for equal citizenship, a gulf exists between the rhetoric of disability rights and their implementation. Most empowering development initiatives support a ‘cost/benefit’-based philosophy, rather than the ‘means–ends’ goal, where the disabled poor are viewed as unproductive and risky payers, instead of giving them an opportunity to exercise their potential. The article suggests that the index might be a useful option for local use to track the inclusion trend of the disabled poor regularly and guide policymakers accordingly.
From Incapacity Benefit to Employment and Support Allowance: social sorting, sickness and impairment, and social security
- Authors:
- GROVER Chris, PIGGOTT Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Policy Studies, 31(2), March 2010, pp.265-282.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This commentary examines the introduction of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) as a replacement for the main income replacement benefit, Incapacity Benefit (IB), for sick and/or disabled people in Britain. The authors argue that the process of claiming ESA, a process that is dependent upon medicalised perceptions of capability to work and which is aimed at managing the perceived economic and social costs of sick and disabled people, is a means of sorting sick and/or disabled people into subgroups of claimants. The authors go on to discuss the implications of their observations with regard to explanations of the disadvantages that sick and/or disabled people face and their implications for the income of such people. The authors conclude that because the shift from IB to ESA is premised upon a number of mistaken assumptions (such as the majority of claimants abusing the system by overstating the effect of their sickness or disability), it represents a retrograde development for people who are sick and/or who have impairments, potentially leaving a lot more claimants financially impoverished than under the old IB system.
Disability, health and access to training
- Author:
- FUMAGALLI Laura
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 58p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Providing adequate training for disabled people is a major objective of recent legislation against discrimination in the labour market for the UK. Using data from the 2004 British workplace employee relations survey, this detailed study analyses the determinants of training for disabled workers both at the individual and at the firm level – in terms of the likelihood of workers being trained by their employers and the length of training received. The findings conclude that disability can reduce the probability of receiving training, but has negligible effect on the duration of training if it is received. The authors propose that the findings pose a challenge for policy makers, who must make it possible for each employee to declare his health status, but on the other hand must set up preventions aimed at discriminating against disabled people.