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Circle of Champions: Innovators in Employing All Americans [PDF]
, 2007 [Excerpt] The Circle of Champions (CoC) is the distinguished group of U.S. businesses and organizations that have received the Secretary of Labor’s New Freedom Initiative Award for its innovative and proactive efforts to recruit, hire, and promote people
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Employers and the ADA: Myths and Facts [PDF]
, 2005 [Excerpt] The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a landmark federal law that protects the rights of people with disabilities by eliminating barriers to their participation in many aspects of living and working in America.
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Quantum support vector regression for disability insurance [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 We propose a hybrid classical-quantum approach for modeling transition probabilities in health and disability insurance. The modeling of logistic disability inception probabilities is formulated as a support vector regression problem. Using a quantum feature map, the data is mapped to quantum states belonging to a quantum feature space, where the ...
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Customized Solutions for Today\u27s Workforce: The Job Accommodation Network [PDF]
, 2005 [Excerpt] The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is a free and confidential consulting service for employers that expands employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities by providing: ■ Individualized worksite accommodation solutions ■ Technical ...
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Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2010 This study aims to describe and analyze the characteristics of deaf people in employment and their workplaces in Sweden. A population of 2144 people born 1941–80 who attended a school for the deaf was compared to 100,000 randomly chosen individuals from ...
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"I Try to Represent Myself as I Am": Self-Presentation Preferences of People with Invisible Disabilities through Embodied Social VR Avatars [PDF]
With the increasing adoption of social virtual reality (VR), it is critical to design inclusive avatars. While researchers have investigated how and why blind and d/Deaf people wish to disclose their disabilities in VR, little is known about the preferences of many others with invisible disabilities (e.g., ADHD, dyslexia, chronic conditions). We filled
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Entrepreneurship: A Flexible Route To Economic Independence For People With DIsabilities [PDF]
, 2005 [Excerpt] In recent years, changes in the global marketplace have significantly altered the character of the nation’s workforce. Trends such as downsizing, increased use of contingent, contract and temporary employees, and new ways of delivering goods ...
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Breaking Barriers: Assistive Technology Tool as Educational Software to support Writing [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 The preliminary report by Siriraj Hospital suggested that 6% of population who are students in Thailand could be estimated to have learning disabilities. It is therefore necessary for our institute to develop suitable ICT technologies to assist the education of these learning disabilities children.
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Advising Youth with Disabilities on Disclosure: Tips for Service Providers [PDF]
, 2007 [Excerpt] As a professional who provides services such as occupational skills training and job readiness training, you need to know how to help young people decide if they should share information about their disabilities.
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Disability, Access to Food and the UN CRPD: Navigating Discourses of Human Rights in the Netherlands
Social Inclusion, 2018 In 2016, the Netherlands ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD), one of the last developed nations to do so.
Mitzi Waltz +3 more
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