 | 30 Ways to Shine As a New Employee
A fun and inspiring guidebook for new employees - focusing on the "soft" skills that enhance job performance and retention. |
| Acting Out: Workplace Social Skills Book Set
This material teaches skills that help with work-related problems. |
| Adult Autism and Employment A Guide for Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals
This handbook helps professionals who work with people who have autism to get a job. |
| Asperger Syndrome and Employment : Adults Speak Out about Asperger Syndrome
This is a guide for helping people with Asperger's Syndrome get a job. |
| Asperger Syndrome and Employment: What People with Asperger Syndrome Really Really Want
This book talks about how difficult it is for people with Asperger Syndrome to keep a job and how hard a job can be for them. |
| Asperger's on the Job: Must-have Advice for People with Asperger's or High Functioning Autism, and their Employers, Educators, and Advocates
This book offers advice for people with Aspergers on how to get along on the job, and much more. |
| Asperger's Syndrome Workplace Survival Guide
This book was written for people with ASD who are working. |
| Barriers to Employment Success DVD
This DVD explains several things that make it hard to find and keep a job, and what will help. There is also a survey available to help people see what is getting in their way of having a good job. |
| Building Community Connections: Designing a Future That Works
Trainer's manual for a workshop designed to teach individuals with disabilities to utilize their contacts in a job search. |
| Business for Aspies: 42 Best Practices for Using Asperger Syndrome Traits at Work Successfully
This book is written to help those with Asperger Syndrome shine in the workplace. |
| Connections in the Workplace
This material teaches about being in the workplace. |
| Conversation Skills CD-ROMs
These two CD-ROM/book sets provide tips on how to talk with, and get to know people. The ideas are helpful at work and in the community. |
| Conversation Skills: On the Job and in the Community
This book teaches people ways to talk with others that will help them in their jobs. |
| Developing Talents: Careers for Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome and High-functioning Autism
This book gives advice to help people with high functioning autism to develop their talents and find jobs. |
| Different...Not Less: Inspiring Stories of Achievement and Successful Employment
This book has success stories written by people who lie on the autism spectrum. |
| Empowerment for Americans with Disabilities: Breaking Down Barriers to Careers and Full Employment
This report tells how important it is for people with disabilities to be employed and fully included in society. It was written to the President of the United States. |
| Get a Job Curriculum Book
This book and CD ROM helps people with disabilities get a job. |
| High School Transition that Works Learned from Project SEARCH
This book explains a program that helps students move from high school into good jobs. |
| Hoist Your Own Sails: Self-Directed Employment for People with Disabilities
A pocket sized book that provides an overview of self-directed employment |
| I Want to Work Workbook
This workbook helps people with intellectual disabilities think about what kind of a job they want. It is available for free online. |
| Impact: Feature Issue on Employment and Women With Disabilities
This newsletter discusses why work is important to women with disabilities. There are many different articles, some explain policy and research, others tell the stories of women with disabilities and the work they do. |
| In Our Words ....
Vermont self-advocates express their training priorities for new workers. |
| Job Search Handbook for People with Disabilities
A job search book for job seekers with disabilities. |
| Know Your Rights! Working and the Americans with Disabilites Act
A short guide for consumers about their job rights under ADA |
| Learn and Earn: Tips for Teens: How high school students can prepare for careers
This fact sheet helps students with disabilities explore career options while in high school. |
| Learning to Work: A Collection of Stories About Life and Work Book
This explains what it is like to work at different jobs. There is a book to read through and a CD-ROM. |
| Life Beyond the Classroom: Transition Strategies for Young People with Disabilities, Fifth Edition
This book is about ways to help students move from school into adulthood. |
| No One is Unemployable : Creative Solutions for Overcoming Barriers to Employment
This highly acclaimed, notably practical book reveals a proven ten-step process and secret strategies for overcoming any barrier to employment. |
| Personal Assistance in the Workplace
a manual about Personal Assistance Services in the workplace |
| Real Choice for Real Opportunity: Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Their Families Speak Out
A report about the best ways to help people with disabilities find jobs that match their interests and talents, and lead to careers. It summarizes the ideas of 144 stakeholders who gathered to talk supporting people to find "real jobs." |
| School Days to Pay Days: An Employment Planning Guide for Families of Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
A booklet for families of young adults with disabilities to guide them on how to go from school to work. |
| Seeking Supported Employment
This is a booklet on self-determination tools for use in supported employment programs for people with psychiatric disabilities.
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| Self-Advocacy: Freedom, Equality and Justice for All
A video and accompanying curriculum to help people discover the connections between self-advocacy and broader social justice movements. |
| Self-Directed Employment
A book of stories from seven people with disabilities who achieved their goals of getting their dream job. |
| Shifting Power and Control: Training Tools for the Self-Determination Journey
Training activities for self-determination, systems change, community inclusion, community participation, person-centered planning |
| Social Thinking at Work Why Should I Care?
This book is about social skills important while on the job. It is written to adults who are on the autism spectrum. |
| Take Charge of Your Job Search
This book helps job seekers develop lifelong skills to find and get jobs. It provides clear, concise advice and activities on how to obtain the right job for unemployed people who face challenges getting into the job market.
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| The 411 on Disability Disclosure: A Workbook for Youth with Disabilities
This workbook helps young people make informed decisions about disclosing their disability. |
| The Complete Guide to Getting a Job for People with Asperger's Syndrome Find the Right Career and Get Hired
This books has tips on getting hired for people who have Aspergers Syndrome. |
| The Hidden Curriculum of Getting and Keeping a Job: Navigating the Social Landscape of Employment A Guide for Individuals With Autism Spectrum and Other Social-Cognitive Challenges
This book has ideas to help persons on the autism spectrum find and keep good jobs. |
| Transit Customers Rights and Responsibilities Bookmark
This bookmark explains the rights of people with disabilities in using public transit. It can be downloaded for free. |
| What Do People With Disabilities Really Want?
An article about American businesses and people with disabilities, both as employees and customers. It is based on interviews with the leaders of seven major disability organizations. |
| Working While Disabled—How We Can Help
This booklet talks about working while getting money from the Social Security Administration. |
| Workplace Etiquette: Why Being Polite Counts on the Job DVD
This DVD shows the best way to act at work. |
| "Our Story" DVD
"Our Story" DVD shows how supported living has been realized by thousands of Californians with disabilities. Use it as an introduction for participants and family, a training tool for staff, and the short version can be shared with legislators. |
| "Show Me the Money": Flexible Funding for Job Success
This website is intended to help people use flexible funding to find and keep the jobs they want. Flexible funding is one part of self-determination. |
| A Health Care Transition Guide for Young Adults
A website with online training about how healthly living help with being independent and having a good job. The training does not require a lot of reading and works well for people who have learning challenges. |
| A National Conversation on Employment
A set of CDs about people with disabilities and employment. |
| Access Jobs
This website has many job openings from around the United States. It is easy to use for people with disabilities. |
| Americans with Disabilities Act: A Guide for People with Disabilities Seeking Employment
This web page gives people with disabilities information about their employment rights under the ADA. |
| Asperger Syndrome and Employment: A Personal Guide to Succeeding at Work (DVD)
In this DVD, a man who has Asperger Syndrome talks about the experiences and challenges he has had at work. |
| Asperger Syndrome at Work: Success Strategies for Employees and Employers
This DVD is about employment of people with Asperger Syndrome. |
| Autism & Asperger's Syndrome: Addressing Sensory Issues, Brain Function, Social Skills, Job Skills, Medications and More DVD
In this DVD, Dr. Temple Grandin uses stories from her life with research to explain life with autism or Asperger's syndrome. |
| Barriers to Employment Success DVD
This DVD explains several things that make it hard to find and keep a job, and what will help. There is also a survey available to help people see what is getting in their way of having a good job. |
| Becoming Independent
This film is about 3 young adults with disabilities, and shows them at work and home. It explains their lives, hopes and dreams for the future. |
| Best Boy
Best Boy is an Academy Award winning video about Philly, a man with an intellectual disability who lived with his parents. The story documents his parents failing health, and Philly's entry into the adult services support system.
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| Connections in the Workplace
This material teaches about being in the workplace. |
| Conversation Skills CD-ROMs
These two CD-ROM/book sets provide tips on how to talk with, and get to know people. The ideas are helpful at work and in the community. |
| Customized Employment Q and A: Assisting Adults with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Families to Pursue Their Employment Goals
This fact sheet explores why adults with disabilities are choosing to attend sheltered workshops and how this situation can be changed. It is from a study about the employment options of adults with disabilities. |
| DO-IT Streaming Video Presentations with Support Publications
These are short videos about the transition from school to work for young adults with disabilities. |
| Dress and Groom for the Workplace DVD
This DVD shows people how to dress for work. |
| Fostering Self-Determination
A set of activities to help people build self-determination skills. |
| Get a Job Curriculum Book
This book and CD ROM helps people with disabilities get a job. |
| GettingHired.com
This website helps people with disabilities find jobs. |
| Health and safety for disabled workers and people who work with them: An easy to read guide
This brochure talks about the rights of workers to be safe. It is easy to read. |
| HIRED FOR MY ABILITY
This employment video is fast-moving and is designed to encourage employers and inspire people with disabilities. In 8 minutes you go to the jobs of 6 men and women while viewers watch them work as each talk about their jobs. |
| I Got that Right: Self-advocates speak up about disability rights
A video about rights |
| Insights Newsletter
A monthly newsletter with the latest news about people with disabilities and employment |
| Institute for Community Inclusion website
A website of the Institute for Community Inclusion at Children's Hospital,
Harvard |
| Integrated Employment Toolkit
This website has information about helping people with disabilities find jobs in the community that pay well. |
| Learning to Work: A Collection of Stories About Life and Work Book
This explains what it is like to work at different jobs. There is a book to read through and a CD-ROM. |
| Monadnock Center for Successful Transitions (MCST)
A program that helps people with disabilities find new jobs, and in other areas as they transition through life. It also assists businesses and schools. They have a great website. |
| No Walls Computer Courses
A very simple, low literacy level 7-course self-study introduction to basic computer skills for people with disabilities and other interested community members with low computer literacy |
| Oregon DHS Supported Employment Website
This webpage explains how supported employment can help people with disabilities achieve careers and community inclusion. |
| Profiles in Achievement: Amazing People with Learning Differences DVD
This DVD has stories about successful people who have difficulties with learning. |
| Real People, Real Jobs: Stories from the Frontline
A website with success stories of people with disabilities working in community jobs. Each story explains how the person found the job, and the supports used in building it into a good job. |
| RRTC on Workplace Supports and Job Retention - Virginia Commonwealth University
This Center studies the supports people with disabilities need to stay with jobs. |
| SB University (SBU)
A website with online training about important topics in the Spina Bifida Community. |
| Seeking Supported Employment
This is a booklet on self-determination tools for use in supported employment programs for people with psychiatric disabilities.
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| Self-Advocacy: Freedom, Equality and Justice for All
A video and accompanying curriculum to help people discover the connections between self-advocacy and broader social justice movements. |
| Small Business and Self Employment for People with Disabilities
This fact sheet is about self employment for people with disabilities. |
| Social Disabilities in the Workplace
This is a CD about helping people whose disabilities make it hard to "fit-in" at work. |
| Transition to Work and Self-Sufficiency DVD's
These six DVDs are about going to work. |
| What Can YOU Do? The Campaign for Disability Employment
This campaign helps everyone see the value that people with disabilities bring to the workplace. Anyone can join by visiting the website. |
| Workplace Etiquette: Why Being Polite Counts on the Job DVD
This DVD shows the best way to act at work. |
| Your Employment Selections (YES!) Program
A reading free CD ROM- based program, showing motion video of 120 jobs for youth and adults with disabilities. |
| Youth, Disclosure, and the Workplace Why, When, What, and How
This webpage explains when and how to tell others about your disability. It is written for job settings. |
