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Institute on Disability

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    - Strength in Numbers
    This past May, 4,736,000 people who have disabilities in the U.S. had jobs. That’s 3.2 percent more people with disabilities who worked than in May 2016, but still less than a... Read More
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    Melissa Mandrell has been namedSocial Worker of the Year.
  • Disability Data
    - Disability Data
    This past November,4,405,000 people with disabilities in the U.S.had jobs. That’s 300,000, or four percent, more people with disabilities who worked than in November 2015, but... Read More
  • Disability Data
    - Disability Data
    This past November, 4,405,000 people with disabilities in the U.S. had jobs. That’s 300,000, or 4 percent, more people with disabilities who worked than in November 2015, but... Read More
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    A $75,000 grant will fund the “iCreATe for Paralysis” program.
  • Megan Carpenter, the new dean of ʤ School of Law
    - Faculty News
    A nationally known expert in intellectual property with a focus in entrepreneurship and the arts has been selected as the next dean of the ʤ School of Law. Megan Carpenter,... Read More
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    Mary Schuh, director of development & consumer affairs at ʤ's Institute on Disability (IOD), received the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation Public Policy Fellowship.
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    - ʤ Offers New Online Master of Social Work Degree
    The University of ʤ has launched an online master of social work (MSW) degree program. The 28-month program provides the same high-quality professional education as... Read More
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    - Independence Day
    At 34, after a degenerative nerve disorder left her unable to live on her own, Michelle Schladenhauffen entered a brain-injury rehabilitation center in Kennebunk, Maine.... Read More
  • tablet computer stand
    - Tablet Computer Stand Earns University’s First Design Patent
    Therese Willkomm, an assistant professor of occupational therapy at ʤ and director of ATinNH, a statewide assistive technology program housed at ʤ’s Institute on... Read More