Recommendations

• Job development efforts must be expanded to:

• work with companies to incorporate disability as part of their diversity plans;

• incorporate incentives to hire and retain people with disabilities at the unit/departmental level;

• provide disability sensitivity and stigma reduction training, to provide ADA and job accommodation training;

• help design innovative recruitment and retention strategies such as the use of private job placement firms and state vocational rehabilitation agency and resources, internship programs, work trails, and mentoring.