V-TWA-11: Together Again: AT for Travel and Inclusive Events

Overview

Accommodations provide equal opportunity and social inclusion for people with disabilities and, if respectfully provided, can create an inclusive event, meeting, and/or training. Although social inclusion can pose challenges and appear daunting, utilizing resources and assistive technologies can enable employers to create a diverse an inclusive event while maintaining compliance with federal law. Social inclusion increases morale, ensures employees have the same access to workplace benefit and tools, and creates opportunities for development and advancement as non-disabled employees. This session will introduce a framework for inclusive event planning and suggestions for individualized accommodations.

Content Disclosure: This presentation will focus on data collected as part of the JAN study, but will feature a variety of products and services from multiple vendors and organizations.

Learning Objectives

Identify and apply JAN's 6 Step Sample Interactive Process.

Discuss five real life workplace accommodations that have been implemented to promote social inclusion for employees with disabilities within meetings, events, trainings, and travel.

Participate in guided demonstration of JAN's A-Z Lists at https://askjan.org/a-to-z.cfm and use this resource to identify three accommodation solutions.

Continuing Education Credits

For Satisfactory Completion and Continuing Education information, please visit: ATIA Learning Center CEUs

This course is offered for the following CE Provider Credits:
ACVREP; AOTA; CRC; IACET
For: 0.10 CEU Units or 1.0 CEU Hours.

End date of current CRC CEUs offering: March 19, 2025
Please refer to the CRC Transition & Workplace Accessibility Series (2024-2025) page for further information on how to submit your CRC CEUs for this course to CRCC.

Speaker/s:

Lisa Mathess

Job Accommodation Network (JAN), JAN Senior Consultant

Biography

Lisa Mathess joined the Job Accommodation Network (JAN) Motor Team as a Consultant in February 2011. She later earned the title of Senior Consultant. Lisa now provides expert level consultation and team leadership as a Lead Consultant on JAN's Motor Team. As the lead member of the Motor Team, Lisa provides one-on-one guidance on job accommodations and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). She assists employees and employers with understanding their rights and responsibilities under the ADA and in identifying accommodation solutions for individuals with various medical impairments, with an emphasis in motor impairments. Lisa writes for JAN on ADA and accommodation topics, presents on ADA and accommodation issues at various national conferences, and provides customized training to JAN audiences and advocacy groups. Lisa earned a Master of Arts degree in Communication Studies and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from West Virginia University. She continues to further her education and maintain credentials by earning CEUs for various certifications, such as the Assistive Technology Applications Certificate Program (ATACP), Society for Human Resource Management Certified Professional (SHRM-CP), and is currently preparing for the Disability Management Employer Coalition (DMEC) Certified Leave Management Specialist (CLMS) exam.

Relevant Financial Relationship: Yes
Salary from employment at JAN

Relevant Non-Financial Relationship: No

https://AskJAN.org/events/index.cfm?calview=eventdetails&dtid=8C87C01C-03DA-2DFC-BA0C26A7BC5021F5

Link: https://AskJAN.org/events/index.cfm?calview=eventdetails&dtid=8C87C01C-03DA-2DFC-BA0C26A7BC5021F5