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Study finds students with disabilities actively seek work after graduation
Author(s) -
Sutton Halley
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
disability compliance for higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-8001
pISSN - 1086-1335
DOI - 10.1002/dhe.30454
Subject(s) - cognitive reframing , graduation (instrument) , face (sociological concept) , work (physics) , foundation (evidence) , point (geometry) , psychology , allowance (engineering) , childlessness , persistence (discontinuity) , medical education , sociology , social psychology , political science , engineering , medicine , social science , operations management , demography , law , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , fertility , population , geotechnical engineering
Nearly 70 percent of Americans with disabilities are striving to work, are working, or are overcoming barriers to maintain employment, according to a first‐of‐its‐kind study from researchers at the Kessler Foundation and the University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability. Many people with disabilities face obstacles in the workplace that result in difficulty finding or maintaining a job, or a pay gap when compared to nondisabled peers, according to the authors of the study, but the point of the study is to reframe this as a show of persistence for the disabled community.