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Highlights

New Website Helps Businesses Follow the Americans with Disabilities Act

Research-based website explains how small businesses can best follow the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and welcome customers and employees with disabilities
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New Website Helps Businesses Follow the Americans with Disabilities Act

YTI Asks, ‘Can Career Coaching Be Transformative?’

Researchers are evaluating an Oregon-based career program for people with disabilities that includes a coaching component.
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YTI Asks, ‘Can Career Coaching Be Transformative?’

Improving Employment in New York

YTI’s recent efforts in our home state of New York have included improving opportunities for people with disabilities to obtain competitive, integrated employment and supporting New York’s efforts to become a model employer of people with disabilities.
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Improving Employment in New York

In the News

Labor Department Moves to End Disability Hiring Goal for Federal Contractors

Mother Jones
Sarah von Schrader, director of research and program evaluation at the Yang-Tan Institute in the ILR School, comments on a proposed rule from the Department of Labor to end a required disability hiring goal for federal contractors.
Labor Department Moves to End Disability Hiring Goal for Federal Contractors

Employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities is #Solvable

The Rockefeller Foundation
Susanne Bruyère shares how engaging businesses can help to identify, reach, train, and support disabled populations who may have been previously overlooked to empower talent and provide them with employment opportunities.
Employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities is #Solvable

Cornell Keynotes Podcast: Neurodiversity Inclusion Policies and Practices at Work

Cornell Chronicle
In an episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast from eCornell, Susanne Bruyère, academic director of the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, discusses the growing number of corporate affirmative hiring programs to recruit individuals who are neurodivergent.
Cornell Keynotes Podcast: Neurodiversity Inclusion Policies and Practices at Work

In New York State

YTI Works for New York State

Partnering with state agencies, policymakers, and communities across New York state to support efforts to increase employment of people with disabilities

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