You can integrate employees with disabilities into your workforce through DVR's 6-step process:

• COMMITMENT-Let everyone in the company know of your organization's commitment to employing, advancing, and retaining people with disabilities. If the company wants it to happen, everyone else will, too. And always remember, workforce diversity includes people with disabilities.
• RECRUITMENT-Tell employees that you are seeking job candidates with disabilities. Send your vacancy announcements to disability-related organizations and agencies, and indicate your interest in receiving applications from people with disabilities.
• INTERVIEWING-Train your interviewers to screen applicants with disabilities. Study the essential functions of the job, and then the qualifications of the individual to see if there are ways to make reasonable accommodations. Be sure any tests or medical exams are performed in accordance with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
• ACCOMMODATION-It's extremely important to test accommodations and adaptations once the employee is on the job. If the adaptations are not adequately meeting the needs of the new employee, make adjustments. Include the employee with a disability in the process of finding and implementing reasonable accommodations.
• TRAINING-Every employee's success hinges on proper orientation and training. Be sure all such programs are accessible to your employees with disabilities. Also, make sure programs that lead to upward mobility and career advancement are available and accessible.
• AWARENESS and SENSITIVITY-Explain to all workers the principle of reasonable accommodations, and why these are made. Knowledge is the key to understanding. Also, have someone knowledgeable speak to coworkers about disability myths and misconceptions. An educated workforce will be better able to ensure the success of your new worker with a disability.

Information on this page was compiled by The President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities.

The Handbook for the Inclusion of People with Disabilities in National and Community Service Programs

This handbook is published by the Corporation for National and Community Service. It provides some good basic guidance on how national and community service programs can include people with disabilities; however it may also be useful to other covered entities under the ADA.

http://www.serviceandinclusion.org/handbook/index.php

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