During the training the audience will learn the importance of reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities at the classroom and how to properly use them.

This session will provide a detailed examination of the SSDI work incentives available to SSDI recipients who are blind as well as their use and just how a benefits practitioner can assist an individual development the supporting documentation required to utilize these incentives.

The Citizen-Centered Leadership Development Community of Practice series is a unique combination of self-paced distance learning study, robust field work, interactive class assignments and live webcast instruction designed to advance theoretic and skill-based learning leading to quality outcomes in the lives of people with disabilities.

This session will provide a detailed examination of the SSI work incentives available to SSI recipients who are statutorily blind, their use and how a work incentive practitioner can development documentation to allow the use of these important incentives.

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This is a CLOSED session only for participants in Rutgers University’s Professional Skills in Job Development Certificate Program. This session will consider the ethical concerns and dilemmas faced by job developers in their daily work. Guidance for handling these situations will be provided within the context of existing, relevant codes of ethics from the Commission on Rehabilitation Counseling Certification (CRCC) Code of Professional Ethics for Rehabilitation Counselors and the American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice; we will examine how the APSE Ethical Guidelines mesh with these Codes. Further, we will review the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements related to disability disclosure, a potential dilemma, at all stages of the job search process. Through case scenarios, participants will have a chance to put this information into practice, enhancing the likelihood that they will effectively apply this knowledge to future ethical challenges.

Through this training the audience will understand the special education process, including how the ADA applies to it.

Providing an overview of the JIT Toolkit program to CNG at Cornell.

This session will provide participants with an opportunity to use what they learned in sessions 1.1 and 1.2 via a Case Study that will be e-mailed to participants ahead of the webinar and then reviewed thoroughly during the webinar.

Through this training the audience will understand the special education process, including how the ADA applies to it.