Job Resources for Students with Disabilities

Below is a list of resources, which offer employment guidance and assistance to college students with disabilities.  If you would like direct assistance exploring careers or researching job and internship opportunities, or if you would like more information about the Workforce Recruitment Program at Seminole State College, please contact the Seminole State Career Development Center's placement specialist at 407.708.2515. You may also visit the Career Development Center office, located in C-104 on the Sanford/Lake Mary Campus.

• Seminole State Career Development Center Resources
• General Resources
• Internship Resources
• Resourceful Videos
• Visually Impaired Students
• Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
• Students with Cognitive Disabilities
• Students with Psychological Disorders
• Students with Chronic Health Problems

Seminole State Career Development Center Resources 

• Business Mentors 
• Career and Educational Research
• Cooperative Education and Internship Opportunities
• Events
• Find a Job
• Online Orientation and Training Snippets
• Print Resources
• Seminars on Demand

General Resources

• Ability Links
• Access Careers
• American Association of People with Disabilities
• Bender Consulting
• Career Opportunities for Students with Disabilities
• Disability JobSite
• Disability.gov: Employment
• Disabled Businesspersons Association
• Emerging Leaders
• Employer's Guide to Hidden Disabilities
• Equal Opportunity Publications
• Federal Jobs for People with Disabilities
• Florida Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
• GettingHired - Jobs for Disabled
• Goodwill Industries
• Greater Orlando Business Leadership Network
• Guidelines for Documentation of Physical Disabilities & Chronic Health Conditions
• IBM Project Able
• Individual Disability Jobs
• JAN's Document Center
• Job Access
• Job Opportunities in the Federal Government for People with Disabilities
• Just One Break.com
• Life Inc.-Information
• Mobility International USA
• Monster Diversity and Inclusion
• National Business and Disability Council
• National Organization on Disabilities
• Recruit ABILITY-both
• The ABCs of Success for Students with Disabilities
• The National Clearinghouse on Disability and Exchange (NCDE)
• Think Beyond the Label
• To Disclose or Not to Disclose
• U.S. Department of Labor Job Links
• Virtual Library
• We Connect Now: Access to Higher Education and Employment

Internship Resources

• The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars, Scholarship Program for College Students with Disabilities
• The Workforce Recruitment Program at Seminole State College
  
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Student Internship Program

Resourceful Videos

• Finding Gold: Hiring the Best and the Brightest
• It's Your Career
• Moving On: The Two - Four Step
• World Wide Access

Job Seekers with Visual Impairments 

• AFB CareerConnect
• American Council of the Blind - Job Connection
• American Federation for the Blind - Job Seeker Resources
• American Federation for the Blind - Employer Resources
• National Industries for the Blind

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Job Seekers

• American Sign Language Teachers Association
• The Deaf Resource Library
• Employment and Deafness
• Deaf Education Web
• HireDeaf.com

Job Seekers with Cognitive Disabilities

• ADHD and the Workplace
• Attention Deficit Disorder Association
• Civil Rights for You
• Accommodation Ideas for Individuals with Learning Disabilities
• Make Your Learning Disability Work for You
• Coping with LD/ADD in the Work Place

Job Seekers with Psychological Disorders

• The Job Search Process for People Who Have Experienced or are Experiencing Mental or Emotional Illness

Job Seekers with Chronic Health Problems

• Aids/HIV
• Bipolar Disorder
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Depression
• Epilepsy
• Fibromyalgia
• Migraine Headaches
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Lupus
• Parkinson's Disease

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