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In this brief, we report on findings about a range of psychosocial determinants that impact the employment of people with disabilities, including determinants related to individual-level psychological characteristics, interpersonal skills, and social support. Please note that all comparisons are always about corresponding peers with disabilities.

This brief is part of a series of findings from CeKTER’s systematic scoping review. In this brief, we report on findings about a range of work-related determinants impacting the employment of people with disabilities, including work history, accommodations, and workplace supports. Please note that all comparisons are always about corresponding peers with disabilities.

This webinar presents highlights from StatsRRTC's Disability Statistics Collection, including data on disability employment rates in rural America and among Black Americans with disabilities.

This video highlights information from the Disability Statistics Collection funded by the Disability Statistics and Demographics Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (StatsRRTC) developed by the University of New Hampshire Insitute on Disability.

Policy makers need disability statistics to determine whether, or what, new policy approaches are needed. Led by the University of New Hampshire, the NIDILRR-funded Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Statistics and Demographics (StatsRRTC) is a collaboration of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AUCD), Kessler Foundation, and Mathematica Policy Research. StatsRRTC's Disability Statistics Collection provides a singular location to obtain and compare the most recent federal, state, and county level disability statistics. This brief highlights just a few of the statistics can be that can be found through the work of StatsRRTC.

This brief is part of a series of findings from CeKTER’s systematic scoping review. In this brief, we report on findings about a range of work-related determinants impacting the employment of people with disabilities, including work history, accommodations, and workplace supports. Please note that all comparisons are always about corresponding peers with disabilities.

A systematic scoping review of research published between 2000 and 2020 on employment of people with disabilities, that was funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), was conducted by CeKTER researchers at Boston University.  

A systematic scoping review of research published between 2000 and 2020 on the employment of people with disabilities, that was funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) was conducted by CeKTER researchers. All papers comparing people with disabilities to those without have been excluded from the systematic scoping review. Among over 100 publications reviewed, there was a wide and very disparate array of findings with numerous variables used and varying research questions. This result belies summative findings. There are numerous ways of organizing the disparate findings. This brief is the first in a series of findings from the systematic scoping review. In this brief, we report on findings categorized by the demographic characteristics of education, gender, marital status, race, and age. Please note that all comparisons are always about corresponding peers with disabilities.

A Community of Practice brings together groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis. In 2022, the Center on Knowledge Translation for Employment Research (CeKTER) developed of a Community of Practice on "S.M.A.R.T. Social Media for Employment Research Dissemination,” This CoP was developed to respond to NIDILRR disability research grantees who have a collective desire to enhance their social media effectiveness. This CoP continues as of April 2024. Using our experience with the "S.M.A.R.T. Social Media for Employment Research Dissemination" CoP this tip sheet offers others guidance on how to develop and sustain a successful CoP.

Marsha Ellison, Ph.D. at UMass Chan Medical School, and Marianne Farkas, Ph.D. at Boston University presented at the 2023 KTDRR Conference "Tailoring Your Knowledge Translation Strategies for Your Intended Users". Their presentation "Advances in Knowledge Translation: Principles and Practices discusses the background principles and activities of CeKTER and some findings from CeKTER’s comparative effectiveness study to determine the relative reach of differing knowledge dissemination approaches for providers of employment services to people with disabilities and disability employment policymakers.