How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Hiring & Retaining Workers with Disabilities A Radical Perspective Shift for Society Business Thursday, July 21, 2011

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Gary Karp Author, Speaker, Trainer www. moderndisability. com

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities The Agenda 70 -minute presentation 20 -minute Q&A

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities The Agenda 70 -minute presentation The Foundation How It Looks

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Why This Conversation? The story has changed Important business issue Affects us personally

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Who are people with disabilities?

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities There are 54 million of them in the united states.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities There are 24 million of them Spinal Cord Injury . . . who are working age, and report having a disability.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities They are people with… mobility sensory ophysical or cognitive Post-Polio Syndrome impairments.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities There are people with… visible or invisible disabilities. Facial Disfigurement

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities There are people with… Childhood or adult-acquired Fibromyalgia disabilities.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities There are people with… significant or nominal Blindness degrees of impairment.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities There are people with… Identify with having Down’s Syndrome a disability or not.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities They are your… neighbors, your colleagues, your family members. Dyslexia

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities They are… people. Real, whole people. Short Stature

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities There are 24 million of them Spinal Cord Injury . . . who are working age, and report having a disability.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities 24 Million Employed 72% Unemployed

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities 24 Million 17. 25 Million Not Working Employed 72% Unemployed

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities 24 Million 10. 75 Million Want to Work 63% prefer to work Employed Don’t want to work

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities 24 Million 3. 5 million can and want to work! Employed 67% prefer to work, but can’t Don’t want to work

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Their lives have Changed Muscular Dystrophy

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities What it means to have a disability is different. . . Limb Loss . . . than it has ever been before in history.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Obstacles have fallen. . and Diabetes possibilities have exploded.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities ? Question

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Stay-at-Work / Return-to-Work

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Stay-at-Work / Return-to-Work

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Stay-at-Work / Return-to-Work The fundamental reason for most lost workdays and lost jobs is not medical necessity, but the non-medical decisionmaking involved in and the poor functioning of a little-known, but fundamental practice employed by U. S. and Canadian disability benefits systems – the stay-at-work/return-to-work process.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities The Interactive Process

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities The Interactive Process Should be solid with your HR and Disability Management departments / staff.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities ? Question

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Things have Changed

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities People With Disabilities are mobile. Spina Bifida

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities more mobile Quadriplegia

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities more mobile Quadriplegia

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities more mobile Quadriplegia

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities more mobile Cerebral Palsy

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities People With Disabilities Multiple Sclerosis live in a more accessible world.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities more accessible Chemical Sensitivity

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities more accessible The Curb Cut Effect Chemical Sensitivity

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities more accessible Deafness

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Universal Design. Epilepsy

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities People With Disabilities are more educated. . and so are more career-oriented. Vision Loss

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities more educated Bipolar Disorder

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities more educated Bipolar Disorder

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities People With Disabilities are healthier and more active. Thalidomide Birth Effect

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities more healthy Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities more healthy Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities ? Question

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities are empowered People With Disabilities by technologies. . . Arthritis in our modern information economy.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities more technology adaptive keyboards.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities more technology onscreen keyboards.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities more technology Screen Readers

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities more technology Screen Magnifiers

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities more technology Deaf Relay

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities People with disabilities are still emerging.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities How “Reasonable” is… Reasonable Accommodation?

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities ? Question

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Reasonable Accommodation? 56% cost Nothing Job Accommodation Network data, U. S. Dept. of Labor

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Reasonable Accommodation? 51% cost Under $500 Job Accommodation Network data, U. S. Dept. of Labor

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities People With Disabilities have gained from advocacy successes.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities advocacy success 1946 The Hill-Burton Act

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities advocacy success 1990 The Americans with Disabilities Act

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities These laws are not. . . consolation prizes. Albinism

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities These laws. . . protect the Temporary Impairment employer as much as. . . people with disabilities.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities These laws do not. . . guarantee a Allergies person with a disability a job.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities These laws do not. . . allow a person to fail to perform. Spinal Muscular Atrophy

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Employers can. . . evaluate and discipline. . . an employee with a disability. Cancer

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Employers simply need to treat everyone fairly, with consistent policies and procedures. Brain Injury

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities What’s in the way?

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities What’s in the way? Disability language

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities The word itself is very powerful. “Disability”

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities The word itself is very powerful. “Disability” In the workplace, “disability” specifically means “can’t work. ”

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities What’s in the way? Disability stereotypes

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Disability Stereotypes They are Angry Cripples?

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Disability Stereotypes They are Angry Cripples? They experience appropriate anger.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Disability Stereotypes They are Angry Cripples? They experience appropriate anger. That’s when they file complaints.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Disability Stereotypes They live Difficult Lives?

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Disability Stereotypes They live Difficult Lives? It is the environment and denial of resources and opportunity that disables.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Disability Stereotypes They Need Help?

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Disability Stereotypes They Need Help? Not when they are qualified and in the appropriate setting.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Disability Stereotypes They are Tragic Figures?

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Disability Stereotypes They are Heroic Figures?

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Disability Stereotypes They are Heroic Figures? The impulse is to pity or to admire.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities We are talking about. . . people who do not fit the prevailing disability stereotypes.

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How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities the of Modern New Paradigm Disability

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities The New Paradigm Think of disability as something to which one Adapts. . for candidates with disabilities, and for existing employees.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities The New Paradigm Establish policies for Modified/Transitional work plans. . embracing principles of Stay-at-Work / Return-to-Work programs.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities The New Paradigm Incorporate disability into corporate Diversity programming. . the missing piece of the diversity mosaic.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities The New Paradigm Provide training on disability awareness. . for managers and for general staff. Disability etiquette Reasonable managers’ concerns

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities The New Paradigm Disability issues pertain to design of products and services. People with disabilities are your customers.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities The New Paradigm Integrate the various departments in your organization. HR, DM, Diversity, Training need to coordinate around their roles.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities The New Paradigm Form resource and affinity groups. Employee Resource Groups help drive and focus the process.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities The New Paradigm Gain commitment from upper management. Culture change requires open commitment from the top.

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities The New Paradigm No More “Hire the Handicapped. ”

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Hiring & Retaining Workers with Disabilities A Radical Perspective Shift for Society Business Thursday, July 21, 2011

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Hiring & Retaining Workers with Disabilities Q&A

How to Effectively Hire and Retain Workers with Disabilities Hiring & Retaining Workers with Disabilities Gary Karp, gary@moderndisability. com Thank You!!