Name: The Value of Employment for People with Disabilities Around the World
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The Value of Employment for People with Disabilities Around the World

The Dignity of Work

Edited By: Renáta Tichá, Brian Abery, Jan Šiška

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Historically, people with disabilities have had limited employment opportunities due to discrimination. This book is intended to build awareness and inspire action from CEOs, HR managers, and policymakers to facilitate employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

Receiving education and training that lead to a meaningful job, having a career, and being a valued contributor to a professional environment is taken for…

Receiving education and training that lead to a meaningful job, having a career, and being a valued contributor to a professional environment is taken for granted by many. Historically, however, people with disabilities have had limited opportunities to engage in employment due to discrimination, ableism, and low expectations despite the fact that employment is a basic human and civil right. This book is intended to build awareness and inspire action on the part of chief executive officers, human resource managers, and supervisory personnel to facilitate employment opportunities for people with disabilities. It will be of interest to policy makers and other professionals who support people with disabilities as part of their responsibilities in labor and social service ministries, vocational rehabilitation service providers, and employment service providers. The book is written by authors with backgrounds in a variety of disciplines related to the employment of people with disabilities across North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

Renáta Tichá, PhD, is a Senior Researcher at the University of Minnesota, USA. Her expertise is in special education and adult disability services in the US and internationally, including in Central and Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. Her publications cover the topics of inclusion, transition to adulthood, and employment of people with disabilities.

Brian Abery, PhD, is a Senior Researcher at the University of Minnesota with an extensive background in research, program development, and evaluation related to children and adults with disabilities, especially intellectual disabilities. He has dedicated his career to supporting self-determination, social inclusion, and quality outcomes of people with disabilities.

Jan Šiška, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Special Education at Charles University, Faculty of Education, Czech Republic, researcher and international consultant with particular interest in transition, and quality of disability support services. His work focuses on developing and evaluating strategies for improving quality of life for people with intellectual disabilities.

Stephanie Fitgerald, Yulia Lipes, Brian Abery, Yuta Y. Aoki, Julie Beadle-Brown, David Blustein, Michelle Brotherton, Olena Budnyk, John Butterworth, María-Cristina Cardona-Moltó, Takeshi Chikurinji, Esther Chiner, Iris Drower, Carla Gilson, Marcos Gómez-Puerta, James Houseworth, Alyssa Klein, Don Lavin, Seunghee Lee, Alberto Migliore, Florian Mtey, Kiyoko Narusawa, Viet Nhan Nguyen, Reiko Nishida, Kate O’Loughlin, Phuong Anh Tran, Tim Riesen, Matthew Schuelka, Dickson Shekivuli, Satomi Shinde, James Sinclair, Jan Šiška, Aubrey Snyder, Roger Stancliffe, Sergiy Sydoriv, Olga Telna, Renáta Tichá, Emily Unholz-Bowden, Nathan Wilson, Jean Winsor, Haruyuki Yoshinaga