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College Bound preps students with disabilities
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- The college classroom scene is a familiar one: young adults in flip-flops and baseball caps, some scribbling notes furiously, others napping.
Near the front, Evelyn Scruggs will fill an entire page during the course of the hourlong class. But she will not remember the lecture topic or one word she wrote by the time she packs her bookbag to leave.
Link (The Washington Times)
Employees With Cognitive Disability Barriers Emerge as Assets
WASHINGTON -- When Kathryn Giordano, director of administration at Baker Botts LLP, suggested to Pat Berry that his daughter come work at his law firm for the summer, he shook his head in disbelief.
"I thought no, not a law firm," he said. "It was absolutely scary."
Link (From Star Tribune)
Posted by Teri Blankenship on November 6, 2006
A Man with Autism's Challenges in Finding Work
This recent Washington Post article was written by Ann Bauer, mother of a son with autism. It describes the concerns and frustrations she and her son have experienced in their efforts to find him employment.
Posted by Doug Erickson on November 2, 2006
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