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Managed by: Cary Griffin of Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC
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Books, Publications & Reports (printed and/or online) (21 Products)
Electronic Media (38 Products)
Organizations, Programs, and Projects (16 Products)
Online Forums (1 Products)
Other (3 Products)

Books, Publications & Reports (printed and/or online)

	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.
	Building an Inclusive Workforce A Four-Step Reference Guide to Recruiting, Hiring, and Retaining Employees with Disabilities This is a guide about employing people with disabilities.
	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.
	Career Success of Disabled High-flyers This book is about people with disabilities who have careers.
	Disability: Dispelling the Myth A guide for employers that explains the steps to follow in hiring people with disabilities. It also tells the many things that happen in an organization when people with disabilities are hired and begin working.
	Diverse Perspectives: People with Disabilities Fulfilling Your Business Goals This webpage talks about why it is an important to include people with disabilities in plans for a successful business. It shows that people with disabilities can be helpful both as employees and customers.
	Diversifying Your Workforce This guide tells employers what they should know about hiring and retaining employees who have disabilities.
	Employer Incentives for Hiring Individuals with Disabilities A report about how much employers know about incentives to hire people with disabilities. This study also considered employers' views on the ADA and hiring people with disabilities.
	Get the Marketing Edge! A Job Developer's Toolkit for People with Disabilities 2.0 Updated second edition This book helps job developers find employment for people with disabilities.
	Impact: Feature Issue on Supporting New Career Paths for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities This newsletter talks about different employment opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
	Questions & Answers About Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act A fact sheet from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. This fact sheet explains how ADA might apply to job applicants and employees with intellectual disabilities.
	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.
	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.
	The Inclusive Corporation: A Disability Handbook for Business Professionals A book explaining the best ways to support employees with disabilities. It is written for the managers of any organization.
	Transition Education and Services for Students With Disabilities This book talks about ways to help young people with disabilities move from school to grown-up life. It is used in college classes.
	Transition of Youth and Young Adults with Emotional or Behavioral Difficulties A book about the best ways to help these students as they move from school to work.
	United Spinal Association Disability Etiquette This booklet talks about appropriate ways to interact with people who have disabiilties.
	Using Braided Funding Strategies to Advance Employer Hiring Initiatives that Include People with Disabilities This report shows how some areas have used multiple sources of funding to help people with disabilities find and keep jobs.
	Using the ADA for Parents of Children with Disabilities This fact sheet talks about a part of the ADA that protects parents of children with disabilities.

Electronic Media (Videos, CDs, T.V., Radio, Websites, etc.)

	A Difference of Ability: Recruiting, Hiring and Employing People with Disabilities A DVD with ideas about how best to support people with disabilities to find jobs in the community. It was made in Canada.
	Access Jobs This website has many job openings from around the United States. It is easy to use for people with disabilities.
	Accommodating Employees with Disabilities This is a training prgraom on a DVD which shows common examples of how to recognize and respond to requests for job accomodations in familiar job settings.
	Asperger Syndrome at Work: Success Strategies for Employees and Employers This DVD is about employment of people with Asperger Syndrome.
	Beyond Expectations: Employees with Disabilities These DVD's show profiles of people with all types of disabilities who are working. The people shown have many different kinds of jobs.
	Building an Inclusive Workforce A Four-Step Reference Guide to Recruiting, Hiring, and Retaining Employees with Disabilities This is a guide about employing people with disabilities.
	Business.Gov Employing People with Disabilities This points users to information all around the web about hiring people with disabilities.
	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.
	Disability Scoop articles about unemployment and people with disabilities These online news articles are about the difficulties people with disabilities are having finding jobs, and asking businesses to help. They were published in March and April of 2011.
	Disability Section of DiversityInc A website with many articles about employment and people with disabilities. The articles take on challenging issues like enforcing the ADA and disability stereotypes.
	Disability: Dispelling the Myth A guide for employers that explains the steps to follow in hiring people with disabilities. It also tells the many things that happen in an organization when people with disabilities are hired and begin working.
	Diverse Perspectives: People with Disabilities Fulfilling Your Business Goals This webpage talks about why it is an important to include people with disabilities in plans for a successful business. It shows that people with disabilities can be helpful both as employees and customers.
	DO-IT Streaming Video Presentations with Support Publications These are short videos about the transition from school to work for young adults with disabilities.
	EARN (Employer Assistance and Resource Network) This Center shares ideas with employers on how to recruit, hire and manage people with disabilities. It's website is well organized and has a lot of information
	Employer Incentives for Hiring Individuals with Disabilities A report about how much employers know about incentives to hire people with disabilities. This study also considered employers' views on the ADA and hiring people with disabilities.
	ForEmployers.com This website gives employers information about hiring people with disabilities.
	GettingHired.com This website helps people with disabilities find jobs.
	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.
	Hiring for Success: Recruiting the Qualified Applicant with a Disability A guide about hiring people with disabilities. It is helpful to human resources professionals, employers, and trainers.
	Impact: Feature Issue on Supporting New Career Paths for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities This newsletter talks about different employment opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
	Increasing Federal Employment of People with Disabilities This online training video provides information on recruiting, hiring and retaining people with disabilities. It is prepared by a consulting group that helps the U.S. government.
	Integrated Employment Toolkit This website has information about helping people with disabilities find jobs in the community that pay well.
	Meet the Future Face of Employment, Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Technology Fields This website is about matching people with Autism Spectrum Disorder to jobs in the field of technology.
	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.
	Reaching Out to Customers With Disabilities An on-line course that explains how the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to businesses.
	Ready, Willing & Available: A Business Guide to Improving Your Workforce By Hiring People with Disabilities This booklet helps businesses understand reasons why and how to hire people with disabilities.
	Recruitment and Retention of Older Workers: Application to People with Disabilities This report applies to people with disabilities the findings of national study on how companies recruit and retain older workers.
	Social Disabilities in the Workplace This is a CD about helping people whose disabilities make it hard to "fit-in" at work.
	Social Skills Hamper Job Hopes For Adults On The Spectrum This online article is about why people with Asperger's Syndrome are having a hard time getting jobs.
	SUPERVISING AN EMPLOYEE WITH A DISABILITY Training DVD and print resources offers a real-life look at issues and solutions in the workplace. Supervisors and employees with disabilities share their knowledge and experiences in orientation, training and ongoing supervision.
	Survey of Employment of Americans with Disabilities This is a survey of what businesses think about hiring people who have disabilities.
	Ten Employment Myths This video tells employers ten things that are untrue about hiring people with disabilities.
	The Business Case for hiring people with disabilities The Office of Disability Employment Policy has information on its website that shows the value of hiring people with disabilities.
	The Changing Face of Technology: Document Imaging Meets the Challenge A video designed to encourage employers to consider hiring people with developmental disabilities for jobs in document imaging.
	The DiversityInc Top 10 Companies for People With Disabilities A list of the top 10 companies for people with disabilities to work. It also gives examples of how each company makes their work place inclusive.
	The Ten Commandments of Communicating with People with Disabilities Through humorous vignettes and instructive scenarios on disability etiquette, this popular video has helped services providers and customer service personnel learn better behaviors. This by-example awareness training has gained many awards.
	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.
	WISEemployers.com This website encourages companies to hire people with disabilities.

Organizations, Programs, and Projects

	Access Jobs This website has many job openings from around the United States. It is easy to use for people with disabilities.
	ADA National Network A national network that provides information, guidance and training on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
	Beyond Expectations: Employees with Disabilities These DVD's show profiles of people with all types of disabilities who are working. The people shown have many different kinds of jobs.
	Diverse Perspectives: People with Disabilities Fulfilling Your Business Goals This webpage talks about why it is an important to include people with disabilities in plans for a successful business. It shows that people with disabilities can be helpful both as employees and customers.
	DO-IT Streaming Video Presentations with Support Publications These are short videos about the transition from school to work for young adults with disabilities.
	EARN (Employer Assistance and Resource Network) This Center shares ideas with employers on how to recruit, hire and manage people with disabilities. It's website is well organized and has a lot of information
	Employers' Guide to Including People with Disabilities in Emergency Evacuation Plans This publication addresses concerns from employers about how to include people with disabilities in company emergency evacuation planning.
	National Center on Workforce and Disability/Adult (NCWD) This national center provides training, technical assistance, policy analysis, and information to improve access for all in the workforce development system.
	National Disability Employment Awareness Month Website This website has many ideas to observe this very important event.
	S.A.F.E.T.Y. First: Working Together for Safer Communities S.A.F.E.T.Y. First is a program that provides practical personal and organizational planning recommendations for emergency situations, particularly in the workplace, for people with disabilities.
	Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world's largest human resource management association.
	The Employer Assistance & Resource Network (EARN) This program has information for any business about the best ways to locate and hire people with disabilities. It also has useful ideas for employment service providers and people with disabilities who are looking for a job.
	The National Technical Assistance and Research Center to Promote Leadership for Increasing Employment and Economic Independence of Adults with Disabilities (NTAR Leadership Center) A collaboration that seeks to increase the employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
	Virginia Commonwealth University Incentive Planning and Assistance National Training Center The US government has many programs to help people with disabilities work and earn a paycheck without losing important benefits. This Center helps states to make this happen.
	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.
	Workforce Recruitment Program This program brings federal agencies together with students who have disabilities and are looking for a summer internship or a permanent job.

Online Forums

DO-IT Streaming Video Presentations with Support Publications
These are short videos about the transition from school to work for young adults with disabilities.

Other

	Business.Gov Employing People with Disabilities This points users to information all around the web about hiring people with disabilities.
	James Emmett James Emmett is the Director of APSE's HR Connect, an initiative that offers consultation services to help businesses reach out to and partner with the disability community. He has spent the last 10 years as a Supported Employment Consultant.
	JAN’s Fact Sheet Series These are fact sheets on topics about working for persons with disabilities.

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