Disability Employment Resources

APA's Disability Issues Office has compiled the following list of factsheets, guides and employment data for job seekers with disabilities and employers.

Guides & Fact Sheets

• ADA fact sheet

• Cornell University Access Guide on making the workplace accessible

• Data on the employment status of people with disabilities

Employers & Recruitment

• The ADA and Internships: Your Responsibilities as Internship and Postdoctoral Agency Directors

• Interviewing Applicants with Disabilities for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Internship Positions

• Supervising Trainees With Disabilities

• EARN supports employers to recruit and retain disabled employees

• Myths about hiring people with disabilities
  - Exhibit 2 (PDF, 65.7KB)
  - Exhibit 3 (PDF, 42.5KB)

• Executive Order to Increase Employment of People With Disabilities

Workers With Disabilities

• Disability Employment Policy 

• Employment Resources for People With disabilities

• Job Accommodations Network, guidance on workplace accommodations and disability employment issues

• Relevant disability employment conference in Bethesda, Md., in December 2012