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October 17, 2006
Keep Track of Your 'Aha! Moments' Here
This is the place where you can record and share an 'Aha! moment' with your fellow eSight members -- a moment when something you have been reading or contemplating makes sense to you with an unexpected clarity.
Making meaning of career management from a disability perspective is sometimes a series of mini-epiphanies. That takes time. Ideas have to churn within you sometimes for quite awhile before you can finally see how to apply them to your particular situation.
If you find yourself going through that process, I encourage you to use 'Aha!' to record those moments for yourself (and others) so you don’t lose or forget them and, instead, use them as a way to enrich your eSight learning experience and advance your career.
Using 'Aha!' can also help you avoid making the same mistake twice or overlooking a second opportunity you may have missed when it came your way the first time.
Record, in writing, your 'Aha! Moments' here.
Posted by Jim Hasse at 05:28 PM | Comments (60)
October 04, 2006
How Has Adaptive Technology Changed Your Life?
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (DEAM).
It’s a time to assess where we are in employing people with disabilities within the U.S. and elsewhere.
One in five people in the U.S. have some form of disability.
The World Health Organization estimates there are 161 million people worldwide with a visual impairment. About 37 million are blind, and 124 million have partial sight.
In the U.S., employment among people with visual impairments is just over 30 percent, a level which hasn’t changed much since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) become law in 1990.
For the most current information about work and disability in the U.S., check the Chartbook on Work and Disability, a very helpful resource.
Also see the Chartbook credits and suggested citation.
DEAM is also a time to look behind the employment figures and ask why that 30 percent employment figure for those with visual impairments remains so low -– especially with all the strides in adaptive technology we’ve seen in the last 15 years.
Participants in eSight’s Assessment 2006 are giving us some clues to that 30 percent sticking point.
See “Career Management: A 'Learning'” Journey.”
It’s a new Career Management Resources article which summarizes, in personal terms, where we stand today as a society in terms of hiring people with disabilities.
Most of us on eSight either have specific experience in overcoming barriers to actually break into the mainstream job market or we have a desire to do so. In each case, we have an obligation to our fellow eSight members to describe what we have learned or desire to learn.
That's the purpose of the eSight Networking Forum: to bring together those who have "done it" and those who want to "do it" so we can learn from each other.
Please submit your reply to this week’s discussion question on the eSight Network Forum:
What do employers need to know about how adaptive technology has changed the way you live and work?
Posted by Jim Hasse at 09:06 AM | Comments (21)