Thursday, October 29, 2009

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month

Since October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month I thought I would share the following video with you. This video tracks a day at work for Laura Lee. Laura is a young woman with Down syndrome and a recent graduate of The Life Program at George Mason University. Laura is now happily beginning her career at The World Bank in the metro Washington DC area.

http://masonlife.gmu.edu/photo/life_video_laura/

Colleges and Universities across the country are beginning to offer post secondary educational programs that lead to increased employment opportunities for people like Laura Lee. This is very exciting as we are now beginning to change the focus from a “job” to a “career” and recognizing the college experience as one more choice/option for normalizing experiences for young adults with developmental disabilities.

I hope you enjoy this video as much as I did!

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