Our Impact

Disability Statistics, a website created by the Northeast ADA Center – which is housed within ILR’s Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability – is referenced in this article about accessibility at Pictured Rocks National Lake Shore, in Michigan. [Syndicated from MLive]

“Without strong federal enforcement, New Yorkers with disabilities are at greater risk of exclusion,” said Wendy Strobel Gower, executive director of ILR’s Yang-Tan Institute, as part of her May 6 testimony to the New York Senate Standing Committee on Disabilities and the Senate Standing Committee on Labor.

Susanne Bruyère, academic director of the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, discusses how prominent companies are adapting hiring practices to support neurodivergent employees.