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Eliminating both physical and attitudinal barriers for students with disabilities

Graduates, Learnerships & Workplace Readiness>Work Readiness / Disability Connect

Duncan Yates is the Mental Health and Neurodiversity Co-ordinator at the Wits Disability Rights Unit (DRU) where he has been working in the field of disability support over the past 10 years. He has a Masters in Psychology from the University of Johannesburg and is also a Practicing Counselling Psychologist. As a person with a […]

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Giving Deaf Youth The Tools To Strive

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The unfortunate fact is that the deaf are often marginalised. iCan Disability Academy was launched to better the lives of its students. This small training café based in Durban North is manned solely by the deaf with students learning about the hospitality trade in a one-year course. Learning hospitality and life skills to enable a

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ONLINE LEARNING AND DIFFERENTLY ABLED STUDENTS

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For too long, we have been teaching and assessing with the average student in mind, without considering students with disabilities and students from less-resourced environments. As higher education practitioners, we find ourselves catapulted into this Covid-19 online space with our diverse range of students with varying abilities. Also, part of this diversity, and lying on

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New system gives blind people a boost

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Cape Town – The Cape Town Society for the Blind has launched an initiative to introduce a new computerised system specifically for the blind. The organisation is working to promote and market the JAWS (Job Access With Speech) computerised system. Converting text to speech The JAWS computer system converts text to speech among other functions

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The benefits of hiring deaf candidates

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According to eDeaf, the leading provider of (Deaf) Skills Development training in South Africa, the unfortunate stereotype still exists that deaf people are less capable than hearing employees in the work environment. The truth is, that deaf candidates can do anything, except here. In their continual efforts to break this stereotype and empower Deaf candidates,

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Can disabled workers increase warehouse productivity?

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Unemployment is a serious issue for adults with learning disabilities, but programs nationwide are working to combat that. Warehousing jobs offer great opportunities to an incredible range of people of different interests, skills, backgrounds and experiences, and training specialized programs are helping disabled persons to enter into the warehouse workforce.

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People with disabilities have a harder time finding good jobs

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According to the last Employment First in Michigan Report, 81 percent of Michigan residents who live with an intellectual or developmental disability are unemployed, while only 9 percent of those without such disabilities are unemployed. Businesses and non-profit organizations are setting out to help combat this issue by finding good jobs for people with disabilities in the

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Finding rewarding careers for those who need them

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Job placement programs across the country are providing an under-served population with the opportunity to pursue a rewarding and productive career that will potentially pay more than other employment offers. Warehouse jobs typically pay entry-level employees higher wages than those working outside the industry receive. For example, the non-profit organization Shelby Residential and Vocational Services in Memphis has connected

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Top 5 Recruitment Agencies for Persons with a Disability in South Africa

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In South Africa, 5% of the population are persons with a disability. However, around 1,4% are currently employed. This needs to change and there are a few agencies who are driving this change. Here are five of them in no particular order. 1) ClockWork Recruitment Company Profile Locations Serviced: Western Cape, Kwa-Zulu Natal and Gauteng

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Work readiness programme for people with disabilities

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Although South Africa has some of the best legislation to support the integration of people with disabilities (PWDs) into the workplace, it does not necessarily create a situation that gets them into the workplace and their numbers in the workplace are not growing significantly. One of the challenges to including PWDs is a lack of

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