TY - JOUR
T1 - A 'win-win' perspective on workplace accommodations
T2 - RETAIN Kentucky's self-advocacy guide to promote successful return to work and stay at work outcomes for workers with disabilities
AU - Rumrill, Phillip D.
AU - Rumrill, Stuart P.
AU - Wickert, Kimberly
AU - Sheppard-Jones, Kathleen
AU - Baumunk, Megan
AU - Roessler, Richard T.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023-IOS Press. All rights reserved.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - BACKGROUND: Research has long documented the low cost and effectiveness of most workplace accommodations to enable qualified people with disabilities to seek, secure, and maintain employment. OBJECTIVE AND METHOD: RETAIN Kentucky's return to work and stay at work intervention involves focused training for participants on requesting needed accommodations from their employers. RESULTS: In this article, we describe the win-win approach to reasonable accommodations, which serves as the basis for helping Kentuckians with disabilities identify and request on-the-job supports to aid in their efforts to remain in the workforce. CONCLUSIONS: Workers with disabilities are more likely to stay in the workforce and continue making valuable contributions to the national and global economies if they have effective accommodations and other employment supports available to them.
AB - BACKGROUND: Research has long documented the low cost and effectiveness of most workplace accommodations to enable qualified people with disabilities to seek, secure, and maintain employment. OBJECTIVE AND METHOD: RETAIN Kentucky's return to work and stay at work intervention involves focused training for participants on requesting needed accommodations from their employers. RESULTS: In this article, we describe the win-win approach to reasonable accommodations, which serves as the basis for helping Kentuckians with disabilities identify and request on-the-job supports to aid in their efforts to remain in the workforce. CONCLUSIONS: Workers with disabilities are more likely to stay in the workforce and continue making valuable contributions to the national and global economies if they have effective accommodations and other employment supports available to them.
KW - Americans with Disabilities Act
KW - accommodations
KW - self-advocacy
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U2 - 10.3233/WOR-223651
DO - 10.3233/WOR-223651
M3 - Article
C2 - 36463483
AN - SCOPUS:85146364635
SN - 1051-9815
VL - 74
SP - 3
EP - 10
JO - Work
JF - Work
IS - 1
ER -