Open, USA Today

“Does my wheelchair make you uncomfortable? How my disability may have cost me a job.”

Dayniah Manderson is a Black woman and a tenured educator who has Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type II, a neural disease that confines her to a motorized wheelchair. In this opinion piece she shares a personal experience with interview discrimination alongside her account of an continuing education program she encountered that was not fully accessible. Her tone is self-serving and she is speaking to the able bodied public, the everyday casual reader of the publication. Manderson tells emotionally centered stories that spotlight the societal commonplace of equal opportunity employment injustices and align with disability advocacy.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2018/10/08/disability-access-job-interview-teacher-discrimination-ada-ableism-accommodation-column/1501095002/

Magazine, TIME

“‘Our Lives Are at Stake.” How Donald Trump Inadvertently Sparked a New Disability Rights Movement”

This is a political article, written by Abigail Abrams, with the clear intention of educating the readers of TIME about how individuals with disabilities have been impacted by the Affordable Healthcare Act repeal and what steps they are taking to advocate for themselves and their peers. She writes on the side of the afflicted but her address is fact driven and fair. The article opens and concludes with the personal reflection of a woman with muscular dystrophy who’s advocacy journey became more intense with the recent political shift, and specific interview quotes from other disabled and able bodied individuals are also used for effect throughout. This piece is written to specifically bring attention to the the minority represented however the author does remain relatively neutral, reporting information rather than opinion.

https://time.com/5168472/disability-activism-trump/

Newspaper, The Washington Post

“Virginia’s expansion of disability services leaves Fairfax County short of funds”

Antonio Olivio writes this fact driven and informative news piece about the increased funding necessary for disability services in Virginia. He methodically provides the reader with an account of how Fairfax County’s attempt at providing services to a larger more inclusive group of disabled individuals surpasses the current allotted budget. The article clearly presents the goal of the redesign, how it will impact individuals with disabilities, and positions of advocates in agreement and opposition to the plan’s objectives. The author is speaking to taxpaying residents and disabled recipients as well as those involved in disability advocacy to notify and educate.. He is without alliance, states zero opinions, and poses no questions. The purpose of this article is to bring the public up to speed on the area’s new disability services plan and its proposed cost.

https://go-gale-com.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T004&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&hitCount=8478&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&currentPosition=70&docId=GALE%7CA491075659&docType=Article&sort=Relevance&contentSegment=ZNEW-FullText&prodId=STND&pageNum=4&contentSet=GALE%7CA491075659&searchId=R12&userGroupName=cuny_ccny&inPS=true

Scholarly, Social Inclusion

“Leveraging Employer in Global Regulatory Frameworks to Improve Employment Outcomes for People with Disabilities”

Matthew C. Saleh and Susanne M. Bruyere present a scholarly report that was part of the issue “Disability Equality: In Theory and Practice” in the Academic Journal Social Inclusion. Thoroughly researched and peer reviewed it is fact driven and statistically laden. Its purpose is to emphasis the impact employers can make in improving outcomes for disabled individuals, in contrast to previous studies and reports that primarily represent the viewpoint of the individual. It explores international regulations and the “empirically supported best practices in recruitment, hiring, advancement, retention, and full inclusion of individuals with disabilities in the workforce.” The authors’ objective when addressing their peers is to provide quantitative and diligently investigated information that advances the study of disability discrimination in the workplace. More specifically advocating policy-making considerations in support of the employer. Showcasing the potential that inclusive practices and their implementation strategies can make in increasing the accessibility of the open labor market and therefore favorably impacting the diversely-abled population in relation to fair employment opportunity.

https://go-gale-com.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/ps/i.do?p=OVIC&u=cuny_ccny&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA554493871&inPS=true&linkSource=interlink&sid=OVIC

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