Presentation Overview
This presentation is intended for career practitioners who would like to know more about how they can better support students with disabilities in transitioning to the workplace. During this presentation, we will discuss what defines a disability, functional impacts, reasonable accommodations, duty to accommodate, as well as roles and responsibilities of career practitioners when supporting students with disabilities. We will also cover practice and communication approaches to supporting this student population from an equity, diversity and inclusion perspective. Suggestions and recommendations for practical tools and resources to support career practitioners will be provided at the end of the presentation.

Speaker Biography
Jennifer Mei is a Registered Social Worker and Masters of Social Work student with over a decade of experience working with people with disabilities. The majority of her experience has been as a career practitioner in the context of vocational rehabilitation and employment counselling. Jennifer is passionate and committed to equity, diversity and inclusion work. Her approach to this work comes from a desire to learn from and empower marginalized populations.