LDI's Plans for Campus Re-Opening to High School Students Hello from LDI! As we complete the first month of the school year, and move through the endless summer that is Arizona through most of September, we first share our sense of profound appreciation to [...]
We have developed our operational plan to safely provide a healthy school and work environment for your review and use, as we move forward to starting exclusively online programming on August 10 for our high school students and August 17 for our adult program students. [...]
The Life Development Institute’s Emerging Leaders Virtual Summer Program features a new course “The Future of Work” for Summer 2020, addressing the new realities of finding and getting a job without a face-to-face interview. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted potential candidates in finding [...]
Support Services for International Students with Disabilities According to the United Nations, around 15% of the global population, or roughly 1 billion people, live with disabilities, making them the world’s largest minority – a minority that of course includes many students. In the Organization for Economic [...]
Oftentimes, those with disabilities are seen as one of two groups; the first are those seen as heroes for "overcoming" their disability to be "normal," or they are seen as victims who we must take pity on. The problem is, things are not always so black [...]
As an employer and professional with hidden disabilities, I am used to seeing many HR articles about, and have been a part of inclusionary business strategies towards recognizing, valuing and working with diversity in the workplace. For this post, I want to write about relatively new [...]
Like other gifted learners, 2e students are highly knowledgeable and talented in at least one particular domain. However, their giftedness is often overshadowed by their disabilities, or these students may be able to mask or hide their learning deficits by using their talents to compensate. Sometimes [...]
by Rob Crawford, of the Life Development Institute Over the past several months, I have been able to meet and talk with people from federal agencies, entrepreneurs, businesses, and grassroots organizations looking for signs of progress in employment policies and practices regarding expanding the workforce participation [...]
