Empowerment for Americans with Disabilities: Breaking Barriers to Careers and Full Employment

October 1, 2007

SCOPE AND PURPOSE:

This report comprehensively reviews the issues integral to the employment of people with disabilities. It has two broad aims: a) to summarize the existing knowledge regarding the employment of people with disabilities in a series of short issue briefs and b) to present new information on the perspectives of employers, people with disabilities, and disability specialists on the key barriers to and facilitators of employment.