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Disability Employment Strategies: Training, Accommodations, and Accessibility Improvements

Learn practical strategies for successfully employing people with disabilities. This includes staff training, accessible facilities, reasonable accommodations, and advancement opportunities. Utilize federal tax incentive programs.

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Disability Employment Strategies: Training, Accommodations, and Accessibility Improvements

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  1. Good Day! ENJOY Click here to begin This is your 30-Second Employer Training: Employment Basics

  2. Okay, I’ve hired a person with a disability. Now what? Include disability information in your new employee orientation and other diversity training efforts Conduct an audit of your facility to identify accessible features and areas in need of accessibility improvements Provide your new employee with a disability reasonable accommodations and training and advancement opportunities All of the Above

  3. Close, Try Again… Businesses should educate all staff on disability issues – during new staff orientation and ongoing diversity training programs. You should also provide continuing information on disability issues and legislation. But there’s more! Guess again!

  4. Almost… One strategy for creating barrier-free employment is creating a physically accessible work environment. Utilize tools to conduct a brief facility audit to ensure you have accessible facilities and services, including accessible parking, routes, entrances, and work areas. This is only one strategy though. Please try again!

  5. Close, but there is more! As required by the ADA, employers must reasonably accommodate qualified applicants and employees with disabilities. This includes ensuring that employees with disabilities can participate in employer-sponsored training events and have procedures in place to promote qualified employees with disabilities to management & supervisory positions. But there are other strategies too! Please Try Again!

  6. CORRECT! There are many strategies for successfully employing people with disabilities that increase workplace integration, promote productivity and efficiency for your new employee, improve employee morale, and encourage overall business success. These include staff training on disability issues, accessible facilities, providing accommodations, training, and advancement opportunities for your new employee, and utilizing federal tax incentive programs. For more information about practical business strategies for employing people with disabilities, read the U.S. Dept. of Education’s Disability Employment 101.

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