People with Disabilities: Sidelined or Mainstreamed?

TL;DR: In this article, Federico R. Waitoller and Kathleen A. King Thorius extend recent discussions on culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) in order to explicitly account for student dis/ability.

TL;DR: This paper found that people with disabilities are more likely than those without disabilities to request accommodations, but the types of accommodations requested and the reported costs and benefits are similar for disability and non-disability accommodations.

TL;DR: This systematic review of 88 empirical studies from management, rehabilitation, psychology, and sociology research highlights seven gaps and limitations in extant research on the treatment of persons with disabilities in organizations to support the development of more inclusive workplaces.

TL;DR: For voting, each aspect of health has a powerful effect on par with traditional predictors of participation such as education and in contrast, health has little to no effect on making campaign contributions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply state-of-the-art econometric methods to wage models which include job demands and interactions between demands and functional limitations, and find that traditional discrimination models underestimate potential effects of disability-related discrimination by penalizing workers for limitations which may not affect their job performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined both short and longer-term employment impacts for all persons diagnosed with mental illness who applied for VR services in the state of Virginia in State Fiscal Year 2000, and found that VR services generally have positive long-run labor market outcome effects that appear to substantially exceed the cost of providing services.

TL;DR: This report presents information on two components of federal disability benefits, those provided through the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs.