Remember the question of whether the chicken or the egg came first? All too often, for persons with or without disabilities, “experience” seems the dominant factor in employee selection. With…
Author: Michael Sheehan
Disabled Workers Skills Overcome Employer Concerns
Joseph Heller, the author of “Catch 22”, would have a field day with the issues surrounding employment of people with disabilities. Alice wouldn’t have to go through the looking-glass. The…
I. King Jordan At Courage Center - Gallaudet President Honored
Security personnel directed traffic and shuttle buses transported admirers from far-flung parking lots March 20, as Dr. I. King Jordan joined the likes of violinist Itzhak Perlman and physicist Stephen…
Voter Input Key To Health Care Access Bill
A monumental piece of legislation is being considered in state legislative chambers this spring, one that could positively impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans. It could pass…
Independence Key Goal of Organizations For Visually-Impaired
Blind, according to one edition of Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, means “sightless”. The dictionary is wrong. To the sighted, blindness is generally a matter of black and white – one either…