Barriers
A systemic preference for “able-bodied”, “able-minded”, and “able-functioned” people
What is Ableism?
This Act was a federal civil rights legislation that defines disability as any person living with a severe mental or physical impairment that substantially limits one or more activities of daily living
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
A joint federal and state program that helps cover medical costs for some people with limited income and resources
What is medicaid?
Any person living with a severe mental or physical impairment that substantially limits one or more activities of daily living
What is the ADA's definition of disability
over time, people with disabilities may hold on to some of the negative beliefs or messages about people with disabilities that they encounter through their lives. They might start to accept these messages as true, and this might lower their self esteem or cause them to have negative beliefs about themselves.
What is Internalized Ableism?
This Act mandated reform for job seekers accessing employment, training, and other services in order to competitively succeed in the global economy
What is the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act?
Holds a yearly conference to help empower the voices and choices of persons with disabilities
What is Green Mountain Self-Advocates?
financially supports individuals who are disabled and have a qualifying work history, either through their own employment or a family member (spouse/parent).
Individuals with disabilities report receiving _____ training about vocations in their formal education.
What is inadequate?
This Act authorized the provision of rehabilitation services to persons living with disabilities includling VR services
What is the Rehabilitation Act of of 1973?
_______ services often include career-related assessments and workplace evaluations, individual and group career counseling, specific trainings (e.g., job readiness, job search, social skills), case management and referral services, etc.
What are Vocational Rehabilitation Services?
offers free rides for Medicaid-covered appointments, and rides to jobs, shopping, etc. for seniors and those with disabilities throughout VT
What is Vermont Public Transportation Association?
______ in and of themselves- are often not the barriers that hinder education or employment
What are disabilities?
This Act added regulations that address transition-related services from school to adult life for children, adolescents, and young adults living with disabilites
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act?
A Vermont Vocational Rehabilitation Service that helps Vermonters with disabilities prepare for, obtain, and maintain meaningful careers and to helps employers recruit, train, retain and promote employees with disabilities.
What is HireAbility Vermont?
physical changes such as ramps or a modified workspace, changes made or equipment used to reduce noisy distractions in a workspace, time off for treatment
What are examples of reasonable accommodations?
This shows mixed results due in part to the ableist/disablist attitudes of employers.
What is research around the disclosure of disability status at work?
A type of employment where a person with a disability is "trained in a series of job-related tasks, placed in an appropriate job setting, continues to receive training on the job, and then the individual receives long-term follow-up."
What is Supported Employment?
A type of counseling intervention used to help empower the autonomy, decision-making, and curiosity of people with disabilities.
What is self-determination theory?