Disability:IN Virtual Tech Industry Career Showcase

The Disability:IN Virtual Tech Industry Career Showcase is coming up in April.

The Virtual Tech Industry Career Showcase is an opportunity for candidates with disabilities to learn from businesses that are seeking to recruit talent with disabilities. Eight tech companies - Amazon, Facebook, Google, Intel, Qualcomm, Raytheon Technologies, Salesforce, and UKG – will participate.

Each company will take several minutes to share information on their culture, the tech and non-tech roles available in their companies, how to showcase your talent, apply for roles at their companies and more.

April 7, 12 to 1 p.m. ET : Tech Roles & Opportunities

April 14, 12 to 1 p.m. ET: Non-Tech Roles & Opportunities

Learn more and sign up for this event here: https://resumedatabase.disabilityin.org/resume-upload/

Abilities Virtual Experience (virtual expo)

The Abilities Virtual Experience (virtual expo) is March 26-27, 2021

There is no cost to attend this virtual event

Learn about disability-focused resources

Register here: https://www.abilities.com/virtual/vregister.html

#AbilitiesVirtual

AADMD Week of Inclusive Healthcare

The American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry (AADMD) Student/Resident Committee is hosting a nation-wide discussion on inclusive healthcare (healthcare for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities) for medical and dental students on Saturday, March 6th from 9:30-11am PST. 

The event will feature a presentation situating intellectual disability in the broader health equity movement through a discussion of implicit bias, conceptual models of disability, ableism, and the concept of intersectionality. 

They will then break out into discussion groups where students will have the opportunity to talk with leaders within developmental medicine/dentistry and self-advocates about other topics related to inclusive health.  

Please RSVP here: https://forms.gle/m66xFjAdvHviJdx26. 

There is also a Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/4bSzLwofQ.

Book club: Disability Law and the Process for Determining Whether a Student Has a Disability

We encourage you to participate in the upcoming virtual book club discussion:

Disability Law and the Process for Determining Whether a Student Has a Disability

February 19, 2021

4-5 pm EST 

Register here

Book title: Equal Access for Students with Disabilities: The Guide for Health Science and Professional Education 

EDITORS

Lisa M. Meeks PhD

Neera R. Jain MS, CRC

Elisa Laird JD

View recordings from prior book club events and sign up for upcoming meetings:

https://www.meeksresearchgroup.com/book-club

Advisor: Basic Life Support (BLS)

The Advisor: Basic Life Support (BLS) program was developed for candidates who pass the cognitive portion of the HeartCode® BLS Provider Course but cannot independently perform the physical skills of CPR.

By successfully advising others how to perform CPR and use an automated external defibrillator (AED), people with physical disabilities can receive an Advisor: BLS card. While some individuals with disabilities can perform CPR skills to the required standards, others who are unable to perform the motor skills of CPR have the ability to take the Advisor: BLS program which permits verbal recognition of the required knowledge and skills. This program increases the population of individuals trained to respond to emergencies, ensuring CPR is performed until emergency medical services arrive.

The Advisor: Basic Life Support (BLS) program was developed by the American Heart Association in  collaboration with the National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities (NOND). 

Learn more about the Advisor: Basic Life Support (BLS) program