Employment Challenges and Legal Options. TETN 20439: 8 of 9, Q & A, part 2. Erin Lawler, Public Policy Specialist of the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities and formerly with the Texas Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities, presents information highly relevant to TVIs and COMS helping prepare high school students to enter the workforce. Lawler covers rules regarding disclosure of a disability in the employment process, what employers can and cannot ask during an interview, what reasonable accommodations are and how to request them, as well as legal issues related to assistive technology.
Original contributor Erin Lawler, Kate Hurst