Sentences with phrase «disabilities in»

Jeff Jones, Target's chief marketing officer, told The Huffington Post that they've actually been including people with disabilities in their ads for over 25 years.

Through strategic funding and philanthropic leadership, Kessler Foundation has invested more than $ 25 million in organizations and programs to increase the participation of people with disabilities in the workforce.

Hudson Community Enterprises (HCE) trains interested people with disabilities in the growing field of document management.

The key deficiencies in neural stem and progenitor cell expansion lead to cognitive disabilities in DS.

Jerome and his wife, Dorie, were involved with people with disabilities in other aspects of life, including teaching them how to dance and helping them live independently.

Through her leadership and vision, she significantly raised the standard of care and services for people with disabilities in New Jersey.

WEST ORANGE, N.J. — Kessler Foundation awarded $ 250,000 Signature Employment Grant to the National Telecommuting Institute (NTI), Inc., based in Boston, M.A., to train and place 400 people with severe disabilities in telework positions.

These grants support model initiatives that help pave new directions for increasing inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace.»

East Hanover, NJ — November 3, 2017 — The major economic indicators continue to reflect increasing inclusion of Americans with disabilities in the workforce, according to today's National Trends in Disability Employment — Monthly Update (nTIDE), issued by Kessler Foundation and the University of New Hampshire's Institute on Disability (UNH - IOD).

«The Consortium will apply readily available virtual technology platforms in its plans to address the employment needs of people with disabilities in these three states,» explained Elaine E. Katz, MS, CCC - SLP, senior vice president of grants and communications at Kessler Foundation.

Identifying the strategies and resources necessary to sustain people with disabilities in paid employment is the first step toward increasing the participation of this population in the workforce.

Despite lasting gains for Americans without disabilities in the June jobs report, Americans with disabilities continue to lag in the economic growth, according to today's National Trends in Disability Employment — Monthly Update (nTIDE), issued by Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire's Institute on Disability (UNH - IOD).

Through its Program Center, the Foundation provides support that ensures vocational training and placement opportunities for people with disabilities in our communities.

The two - year grant aims to improve employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities in the Midwest

«More than half of the 845,000 people with disabilities in N.J. report having mobility impairments.

Sam Aidoo, technical director of the Paralympics Committee of Ghana, worked to develop sports for people with disabilities in Ghana to focus national attention on disability issues in Ghana.

The Consortium expects to serve as a disability employment think tank, as well as a demonstration, evaluation, and policy advisor hub, housing best practice data uniquely suited to meet the needs of people with disabilities in the midwestern states.

«The University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota have joined together around the shared goal of fostering collaboration in support of improved employment outcomes for people with disabilities in the Midwest,» remarked Julie J. Christensen, LMSW, PhD, director of Iowa's UCEDD.

«This is the longest run of positive news since we began reporting the employment situation of people with disabilities in 2013,» he added.

For the first time since we began reporting these data in 2013, we have seen twelve consecutive months of improvement in the proportion of people with disabilities in the workplace,» according to John O'Neill, PhD, director of employment and disability research at Kessler Foundation.

WEST ORANGE, N.J. January 7, 2016 — Kessler Foundation awarded a two - year, $ 500,000 grant to Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago to launch the Realizing Education and Advancement for Disabled Youth (READY) Program — a transition program for high school students with disabilities in Chicago, Illinois, so that they can achieve economic independence after graduation.

Through the power of collaboration, we can increase the employment of job seekers with disabilities in companies across the country.»

«These improvements in the employment situation for people with disabilities in 2016 were better than the gains we saw last year.

The Mercy Health Foundation's Healthcare Workforce Inclusion Model will place individuals with disabilities in new and existing opportunities in St. Louis, Missouri.

Kessler Foundation Grants $ 401K to Develop and Implement a Healthcare Workforce Inclusion Model for People with Disabilities in St. Louis

Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago will launch the Realizing Education and Advancement for Disabled Youth (READY) program to help students with disabilities in Chicago, Illinois, gain access to college, employment and economic independence through a two - track, person - centered model.

Kessler Foundation Awards $ 407K to College to Career Transition Program for Students with Disabilities in Florida

ODEP recently launched the Add Us In initiative, which identifies and develops strategies to increase employment opportunities for job - seekers with disabilities in the small business market, especially those owned by minority groups.

Chesney, paralyzed more than two decades ago at age 15, launched an initiative to train and place people with disabilities in careers in the financial sector; the program receives funding from Kessler Foundation.

«We need to practice what we preach by demonstrating that we can be successful in hiring people with disabilities in all sectors and have an inclusive workforce wherever possible,» said Ms. Martinez.

In addition, grant dollars will promote the abilities of people with disabilities in the workforce through televised educational content, expand transportation options, connect artists with disabilities to potential art buyers and create professional workplace coursework and internships for college students with disabilities.

«Combined with the decline in the employment - to - population ratio, this really provides a bleak picture for the inclusion of people with disabilities in the American Economy going forward.»

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), the umbrella term for the range of disabilities that can result from prenatal alcohol exposure, represents the leading cause of preventable developmental disabilities in the world.

New research published in the 31 October issue of Cell unveils how a neural stop signal goes askew in neurofibromatosis, one of the most common genetic causes of learning disabilities in humans.

Still, these disorders can provide some intriguing insights, says W. Ted Brown of the Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities in Staten Island, N.Y. «Mutations in one gene can produce a set of effects that dramatically resemble aging.

To come to this conclusion, the researchers examined data from a qualitative comparative case study that explored two secondary schools organized for the inclusion of students with disabilities in general education classrooms.

A Columbia University study linked greater proximity to fossil - fuel exhaust with greater learning disabilities in children — making them better candidates for jail than higher education.

Spinal cord injuries cause severe functional disabilities in those who sustain them, including paraplegia or tetraplegia, depending on the scale of the injury.

is a program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (publisher of Science's Next Wave) that offers internship opportunities for students with disabilities in science, engineering, mathematics, computer science, and some fields of business.

Now scientists find these symptoms may arise from disabilities in predicting or recognizing their own actions.

National Science Foundation's Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering: http://nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/2013

SOURCES: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 2013, by National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics.

The data are also essential for a congressionally mandated report on women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science.

The report called for «easily identifiable happy - to - help staff who have appropriate training and skills to support people with additional needs» and appealed to supermarkets to include communicating with shoppers with intellectual disabilities in their general staff training sessions.

National Science Foundation, Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 2000.

But exposure to the chemicals blocked cell division, which could lead to neurological disabilities in babies if their cells are exposed at particular times during fetal development.

Kenji Kansaku at the National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities in Tokorozawa, Japan, and his colleagues performed the same trick on mice, hiding their tails and using a fake one.

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Epileptic encephalopathy is a rare but devastating sub-form of epilepsy that results in severe mental and physical disabilities in children from birth.

Fostering Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities is the product of a collaborative project initiated to examine current issues and explore future directions for improving the academic success and career entry rate of postsecondary students with disabilities in STEM) fields.