{"id":189,"date":"2010-10-07T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2014-07-16T22:26:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T22:26:59","slug":"at-disability-employment-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/at-disability-employment-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"AT &#038; Disability Employment Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><i>Written by LaCandice McCray, CFILC&#8217;s Outreach &amp; Training Advocate<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">The AT Network salutes October as Disability Employment Awareness Month! And speaking of employment, guess what many people with disabilities use in the workplace? That\u2019s right. Assistive Technology.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">This year\u2019s theme of Disability Employment Awareness Month is \u201cTalent Has No Boundaries: Workforce Diversity Includes People with Disabilities.\u201d In addition to the growing diversity in the workplace, the use of assistive technology is also increasing. <span><span style=\"color: black;\">Many people with disabilities use AT to adapt to their work environment or to improve their job performance. Some examples of AT used at work include: adaptive keyboards and mice, BrailleNotes, video relay equipment and services, and variety of computer software.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span><span style=\"color: black;\">In recognition of Disability Employment Awareness Month, the AT Network will be participating in these upcoming events:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<div style=\"color: black;\">6th Annual Bone and Joint Expo, October 16, 2010, Napa, CA<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00b7<span style=\"font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span><span style=\"color: black;\">RespectABILITY Conference, October 22, 2010, Los Angeles, CA<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;\"><span><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00b7<span style=\"font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span style=\"color: black;\"> Inland Empire Disability Resources Expo, October 23, 2010, Riverside, CA<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;\"><span><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00b7<span style=\"font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span style=\"color: black;\"> 5<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Northern California Tech Expo, October 23, 2010, Santa Rosa, CA<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;\"><span><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00b7<span style=\"font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span style=\"color: black;\">Living Healthy with a Disability Resource Fair, October 29, 2010, Sacramento, CA<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span><span style=\"color: black;\">What are other examples of AT used in the workplace? How are you observing Disability Employment Awareness Month?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by LaCandice McCray, CFILC&#8217;s Outreach &amp; Training Advocate The AT Network salutes October as Disability Employment Awareness Month! And speaking of employment, guess what many people with disabilities use in the workplace? That\u2019s right. Assistive Technology.&nbsp; This year\u2019s theme of Disability Employment Awareness Month is \u201cTalent Has No Boundaries: Workforce Diversity Includes People with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}