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Medicaid and Employment of People With Disabilities

Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2006
Recent public policy has sought to broaden the role of Medicaid, which typically serves people with limited income, to include increasing employment among people with disabilities and supporting people with disabilities who are working. In late 2001, we surveyed Medicaid agencies regarding their provision of services to working people with ...
Jennifer Sullivan Sulewski, Dana Scott Gilmore, Susan M. Foley   +2 more
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Entering work: employment outcomes of people with developmental disabilities

International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 2008
This paper provides a current snapshot of employment outcomes for individuals with developmental disabilities who had recently entered integrated employment (individual and group supported jobs) with the support of a community rehabilitation provider.
Heike, Boeltzig, Jaimie C, Timmons, John, Butterworth   +2 more
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Employer Attitudes Towards the Work Inclusion of People With Disability

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2013
BackgroundThis study examines the importance of work in life of people with disability and then focuses on employer attitudes towards these people. In the light of Stone and Colella's model, the study examines the employer attitudes and the role of variables such as type of disability, employer experience in the hiring of persons with disabilities, the
NOTA, LAURA, SANTILLI, SARA, SORESI, SALVATORE, GINEVRA, MARIA CRISTINA   +3 more
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Value of employment to people with learning disabilities

British Journal of Nursing, 2002
A key objective of the Government White Paper ‘Valuing People: A New Strategy for Learning Disability for the 21st Century’ is to encourage and assist people with learning disabilities to gain employment. This is because very few people with learning disabilities are in paid work and employment is promoted as a means of improving self-esteem, skills ...
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Employment and Empowerment of People with Disabilities

2005
In conclusion, it is clear that people who are physically and mentally challenged in the United States and the world in general—people with disabilities—continue to experience the effects of discrimination, stigmatization, and oppression (Cole, Christ, & Light, 1995; Kopels, 1995).
Creigs Beverly, Ann Rosegrant Alvarez
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Increasing employer willingness to hire people with disability: the perspective of disability employment service providers

Journal of Social Marketing, 2023
Purpose This study aims to investigate which factors are associated with the willingness of employers to hire people with disability from the perspective of disability employment service providers. We also identify social marketing approaches that disability employment service providers consider to be most effective in increasing employer willingness ...
Mahasneh, Rola, Randle, Melanie, Gordon, Rob, Algie, Jennifer, Dolnicar, Sara   +4 more
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Locations of Employment Services and People With Disabilities

Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2007
Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) services and One-Stop Career Centers (One-Stops) are the 2 principal public services intended to increase the employment rates of people with disabilities through employment and training services. As a first step in assessing accessibility of the locations of employment services, this study compared the location of VRs ...
Deborah S. Metzel, Alberto Giordano
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Employment of People with Disabilities Following the ADA

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2003
Studies finding a negative effect of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on the employment of people with disabilities have used the work disability measure, which has several potential problems in measuring employment trends. Using Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) data that permit alternative measures of disability, this study ...
Douglas Kruse, Lisa Schur
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Employment integration barriers: experiences of people with disabilities

The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2019
People with disabilities experience barriers in the integration phase of employment. The aim of this article was to examine the experiences of people with disabilities relating to job application f...
Emma Louise McKinney, Leslie Swartz
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Attitudes toward People with Disabilities and Judgments of Employment Potential

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1991
The relationship between employers' expressed attitudes toward people with disabilities and their impressions of the employment potential of female job applicants was investigated. 120 subjects viewed videotapes of a simulated interview situation which included either an able-bodied applicant, one on crutches, or one in a wheelchair.
L A, Christman, B L, Slaten
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