Title:  Life Stories of Adults with LD

Audience:                  Learner with LD

Key Words:               LD success stories

Publication Date:      2005

URL:                          http://www.ldonline.org/firstperson/first_person_archives.html

Abstract/Summary: Offers many personal essays of first-hand experiences with the challenges of Learning Disabilities.

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Title: Living with LD

Audience:                  Learner with LD

Key Words:               Comprehensive

Publication Date:      2002-  

URL:                          http://www.ncld.org/content/view/382/339/

Abstract/Summary: This National Center for Learning Disabilities site serves as a guide to help adults manage LD in different and multiple areas of their lives.

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Title:  Making Choices about Learning and Work

Audience:                  Learner with LD; Teacher

Key Words:               Comprehensive; Self-advocacy; Skills ID

Publication Date:      2004

URL:                          http://ldlink.coe.utk.edu/making_choices.htm

Abstract/Summary: Curriculum options for an adult with LD would include basic skills, learning strategies, critical content, social skills, and self-advocacy.  Each area is explained providing key curricular elements and resources for teaching.

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Title:  Meeting the Challenge of Conformity

Audience:                  Learner with LD

Key Words:               LD success stories; Self-advocacy

Publication Date:      2002

URL:                          http://www.ldonline.org/article/6000

Abstract/Summary: This vignette of how a worker with attention deficit disorder adjusts to her work situation reveals the obvious and more subtle aspects of that adjustment -- self knowledge, self advocacy, personal commitment, and social skills -- needed to succeed in a new work situation. It should be helpful to others anticipating and/or finding themselves in similar situations.

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Title:  National Center for Learning Disabilities: LD InfoZone

Audience:                  Learner with LD; Teacher

Key Words:               Disclosure; Self-advocacy

Publication Date:      2005

URL:                          http://www.ncld.org/content/view/445/389/

Abstract/Summary: InfoZone provides an extensive collection of LD information across the nation including fact sheets and research reports on many topics.  There are links to sections on Living with LD, LD on the Job, and Legal Rights.

• Americans with Disabilities Act & Other Legal Information

• Employer Tips on Interviewing Applicants with Disabilities

• Basic Etiquette: People With Mental Retardation/Cognitive Disabilities

• Checklist: Finding Jobs for Customers with Disabilities

• Job Development for People with Disabilities: Overview

• Simple Screening Tool for a Learning Disability

• Americans with Disabilities Act - Focus on Employment

• Developmental Disabilities Resources

• Dispelling Myths about the Americans with Disabilities Act

• Fact Sheet: Learning Disabilities

• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) P.L. 101-336 Overview

• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title 1: Employment

• One-Stop Centers: A Guide for Job Seekers with Disabilities

• Financial Incentives for Hiring People with Disabilities

• Purchase or download Access for All: A Resource Manual for Meeting the Needs of One-Stop Customers with Disabilities (2001)

• Job Accommodation Examples

• The Americans with Disabilities Act: Employment Rights of Individuals with Disabilities

• Why Employers Hire People with Disabilities

• One-Stop Career Centers: Serving People with Disabilities

• Basic Facts: People with Disabilities

• One-Stop System: Legal Guidelines & Requirements for Serving People with Disabilities

• NCWD/A News 2(1): Job-Seeking Materials for Customers with Disabilities

• Myths and Facts About People with Disabilities

• The Americans with Disabilities Act: Employer Responsibilities

• Basic Etiquette: People with Disabilities

• Learning Disabilities Resources

• Resources on the Americans with Disabilities Act

• Transportation for People with Disabilities

• Youth Services and Individuals with Disabilities

• Case Studies on the Implementation of the Workforce Investment Act: Focus on Involving People with Disabilities

• Improvements to the SSDI and SSI Work Incentives and Expanded Availability of Health Care Services to Workers with Disabilities under the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999.

• Four Strategies to Find a Good Job: Advice from Job Seekers with Disabilities

• Evaluating Your Agency and Its Services: A Checklist for Job Seekers with Disabilities

• Diagnosing Learning Disabilities and Empowering Individuals in School and in the Workplace

• Businesses Can "Do Good" and "Do Well" Through Tax Breaks Offered To Companies That Hire People With Disabilities

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Title:  Preparing for a Job While in College

Audience:                  Learner with LD

Key Words:               Self-advocacy

Publication Date:      2000

URL:                          http://www.ldonline.org/article/6004

Abstract/Summary: This resource suggests ways the college student with a learning disability can position him/herself for employment possibilities through gaining applicable work experience through tailoring class assignments, volunteer work, part-time jobs, and extracurricular activities while in college.

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Title:  Searchable Online Accommodation Resource (SOAR)

Audience:                  Learner with LD; Employer

Key Words:               Accommodations

Publication Date:      2002

URL:                          http://www.jan.wvu.edu/soar/index.html

Abstract/Summary: The Searchable Online Accommodation Resource (SOAR) provides an opportunity to explore accommodation options by selecting from a list of disabilities.

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Title:  Self Advocacy: Practical Advice to the Adult with LD

Audience:                  Learner with LD

Key Words:               Self-advocacy

Publication Date:      1997

URL:                          http://www.ldonline.org/article/5997

Abstract/Summary: Essay urges self-advocacy and includes “strategies that work.”

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Title: The Skills Profiler

Audience:                  Learner with LD

Key Words:               Skills ID, match to occupations

Publication Date:      2003

URL:                          http://www.acinet.org/acinet/skills/default.aspx

Abstract/Summary: The Skills Profiler contains three tools: the Skills Identifier, Skills Explorer, and Skills Gap Analyzer. After completion of the Skills Identifier, the skill set is used to identify and explore specific occupational opportunities.

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Title:  Succeeding in the Workplace: Attention Deficit Disorder and Learning

Audience:                  Teacher; Learner with LD

Key Words:               Comprehensive

Publication Date:      1994

Abstract/Summary: This book discusses coping with learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder in the workplace. It is designed to assist individuals with ADD and learning disabilities and their advocates. It is a collaborative effort of physicians, psychologists, and lawyers who combine their expertise with personal experiences. The sections included are: attention deficit disorder and learning disabilities in adults, strategies, accommodations, how to find the right job, how to get the right job, how to advance and handle trouble if it arises, related issues, and legal rights. The information contained in this book is comprehensive and a practical guide for those with ADD or Learning Disabilities in or entering into the workplace.

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Title:  Tips for Workplace Success for the Adult Learner

Audience:                  Learner with LD

Key Words:               Skills ID, match to occupations; Disclosure; Accommodations

Publication Date:      1995

URL:                          http://www.ldonline.org/article/6009

Abstract/Summary: This short article provides suggestions for adults with learning disabilities to successfully apply for and keep a job, including matching personal strengths to job descriptions, and how to go about disclosing the disability in order to request accommodations.

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Title:  To Tell or Not to Tell: Self-identification, Self-advocacy, and Civil Rights in Employment and Postsecondary Education

Audience:                  Learner with LD

Key Words:               Disclosure; ADA

Publication Date:      1996

URL:                          http://www.ldaamerica.org/aboutld/adults/workplace/tell.asp

Abstract/Summary: This resource aims to make adults with learning disabilities aware of the legal and relational issues involved in disclosing a disability to an employer or potential employer. One must self-disclose in order to take advantage of the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 or IDEA, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

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