The U.S. Department of Labor Statistics reports that only 19.1% of persons with disabilities are employed, compared to 65.9% without disabilities. In celebration of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, here are resources for you to help your child with employment transition planning into adulthood:

Check your state’s Employment First initiative – a national movement to deliver meaningful employment, fair wages, and career advancement for people with disabilities
Understand how ABLE accounts can help your reach education and employment goals by watching this webinar
Know how your child’s Individual Transition Plan is key to employment in adulthood
Chart your child’s life course by developing a vision for a good life, thinking about what they need to know and do, identifying how to find or develop supports, and discovering what it takes to live the lives they want to live

IEP Transition Planning

This session from our 2019 family and professional conference focuses on how you can ensure that appropriate transition planning, including transitioning into college or employment, is in your child’s IEP.

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about the author

Monika Jones, JD, is our founder and the principal investigator of the Global Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Registry. Her first son had hemispherotomy, revision surgery, and then true anatomical hemispherectomy to stop seizures, including infantile spasms, caused by total hemimegalencephaly. You can find her research at orcid.org/0000-0001-6086-3236.