Posts filed under: employment

Oct. 17, 2011
Tallahassee.com
Young adult with disability an inspiration to students
Several high school students listen attentively to the young man standing before them. Not long ago, Jesse Riddle, who has a learning disability, had been sitting where they are.

But with drive and determination, he is living his dream of helping people with disabilities find employment. In the process, he has become an inspiration for the students of Osceola County.
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Filed Under: education, employment, technology

Oct. 17, 2011
Downtown Devil
Student doesn't let blindness hold her back from pursuing her dreams
A girl sits on a couch, laughing and smiling frequently. Her colorful, bright dress matches her vibrant personality. A black Labrador, Olivia, is sprawled on the carpet contentedly. She’s never too far away from her owner, criminal justice sophomore Katherine Chavez.

In conversation, Katherine has a peculiar tendency to look above the head of whomever she’s speaking with, like she expects the person to be taller than he or she really is. It’s a rough subject to bring up, as if calling attention to the elephant in the room. But why does she do that?

The answer: Katherine can’t see.
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Filed Under: education, employment, higher education, profile, relationships

Oct. 17, 2011
IPS News (Ghana)
Woes for Disabled Persist Five Years After Act
Emmanuel Joseph and George Amoah, two disabled Ghanaians, occupy different ends of the spectrum. The former lies on a piece of cardboard in Accra Central, his half-naked body twisted and mostly paralysed, the sun beating down on him while he waits to collect three dollars, the average proceeds of a day’s begging.
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Filed Under: employment, international, physical disability

Aug. 28, 2011
The Register-Guard (Eugene, Ore.)
Coach’s disability nothing but a footnote in a successful career
The message, with all its implications for success, can be distilled into three words. Spend any amount of time around this coach, around his football program, and you’ll come away parroting the mantra: “Figure it out.” Catchy, sure. But it’s more than a nice phrase. It’s Mark Speckman’s coaching philosophy. And his life.
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Filed Under: disability awareness, employment, physical disability, recreation

Aug. 18, 2011
KLTV-TV (Tyler, Texas)
Barista with dwarfism settles lawsuit with Starbucks
Starbucks Coffee Company has agreed to pay $75,000 and provide other significant relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged Starbucks Coffee Company with unlawfully denying a reasonable accommodation to a barista with dwarfism at one of its El Paso stores and firing her because of her disability.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), dwarfism, employment, public policy

Aug. 18, 2011
The Acorn (Agoura Hills, Calif.)
Disability doesn’t hold him back
Tye Horn sets goals and achieves them. Horn, who has mild developmental disability, was hired as a parking lot attendant at Home Depot in Newbury Park when he was 19. After pushing carts for nearly a decade, he set his sights on moving inside and becoming a cashier.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, employment

May 27, 2011
The Arizona Republic
Firefighters rally behind colleague with prosthesis
The 4-foot fall from a rock-climbing wall in 2005 shattered Mase Mattingly's right ankle, which bent at a 90-degree angle.
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Filed Under: employment, physical disability

May 25, 2011
Orlando Sentinel
EEOC: Hearing-impaired teacher's rights violated
A federal investigator has concluded that Lake County schools violated the rights of a hearing-impaired teacher who lost his job after the district refused to provide him the equipment he needed to compensate for his disability
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Filed Under: employment, hearing impaired

May 22, 2011
The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch
Help wanted: Jobs for the disabled
Thousands of adults with Down syndrome, autism and other developmental disabilities work in Ohio at jobs that pay less money than a teen-age babysitter earns. Some say the low pay is immoral; others view the federal law as a godsend.
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Filed Under: employment, sheltered work environment

April 27, 2011
Bloomberg Businessweek
Employers Gird for Disabilities Act Changes
Recent amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act widen the range of disabilities and shift the burden of proof from employees to business owners in labor disputes, says Jeff Nowak, a labor and employment attorney at Franczek Radelet in Chicago.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), employment, public policy

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