How To Work with Your Unique Disability

Summary

This book is a transformative guide designed to inspire and equip individuals with disabilities who are seeking employment. The author, who struggles with a disability, offers insights, tips and strategies to help other individuals with disabilities to successfully gain and maintain employment. This book discusses real-life success stories about individuals with disabilities who have navigated the job market and overcome the barriers that were preventing them from working.

It also explores the different types of disabilities and a multitude of workplace barriers that individuals may face while navigating the workforce with a disability. It takes a deeper look at requesting reasonable accommodations in the workplace and it offers recommendations for requesting various types of reasonable accommodations. Readers will gain the knowledge that they need to create a comprehensive roadmap to help them to set realistic career goals, based on their limitations and the barriers that they face to working with their unique disability.

Additionally, this book emphasizes the importance of resilience, adaptability, and self-advocacy. These three things can lead to not only employment but fulfilling careers that can last for a lifetime. If you’ve been struggling to figure out a work circumstance that works around your unique disability this book is a great resource that will educate, inspire and empower you to make your career dreams a reality.