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Disclosure Guide
Disclosure means informing someone or to make the information known, in this case to the employer or your college, about your disability, specific learning difficulty or mental health difficulty.
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Workplace Wellness Guide: Thriving as a Professional with a Disability
Navigating the workplace as a disabled professional can be both rewarding and challenging. While there’s growing awareness around reasonable accommodations and workplace inclusion, balancing your physical and mental health alongside work can sometimes feel like a juggling act.
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Disability disclosure and how AHEAD can help you in your career
AHEAD is an Irish non-profit organisation committed to promoting full access to education and employment for students and graduates with disabilities through ensuring individuals with disabilities have the opportunities and accommodations they need to succeed. AHEAD’s programmes include the Willing Able Mentoring (WAM) programme, their work placement programme and GetAHEAD, which works to upskill graduates with disabilities.
GetAHEAD Blog: Hybrid Working
As a result of COVID-19, many workers had to work from home entirely which changed the world of work for many companies implementing hybrid working policies. Hybrid working is a combination of working from home and working from a designated team office. It’s emerging as an increasingly prevalent way to work and to attract and retain employees for companies.
Self-Advocating at Work
Remote Work and Individual Differences - The Freedom to Work Well
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Asking For Workplace Accommodations When You Have A Disability
Tessa Lyons: My WAM Experience
The Interview
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Reasonable Accommodations at Work
Work related legislation
There are two key pieces of legislation that deal with equality in the employment of people with disabilities. We’ve summarised both of them below and described a key term that arises in this legislation - Reasonable Accommodation.
