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Employment of People with Disabilities:
Employer Policies and Practices that Promote Non-Discrimination
About the Presenter
Susanne Bruyére, Ph.D., CRC, is the Director of the Program
on Employment and Disability at Cornell University in the School
of Industrial and Labor Relations - Extension Division. She is currently
the Project Director and a Principal Investigator of numerous research
efforts. Three are funded by the U.S. Department of Education, National
Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR): the
Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for Economic Research
on Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities; a four-year
Research and Demonstration project in collaboration with the Society
for Human Resource Management, the Washington Business Group on
Health, and the Lewin Group to address ways to improve the employment
practices covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA);
and a Mary E. Switzer Distinguished Research Fellowship to conduct
a comparative study of employer practices under the ADA and the
Disability Discrimination Act in Britain. A similar such study of
federal agency equal employment and human resource practices for
people with disabilities has also recently been funded to Cornell
University by the Presidential Task Force on Employment of Adults
with Disabilities (U.S. Department of Labor), and Dr. Bruyère
also serves as Principal Investigator of this study. Susanne holds
a doctoral degree in Rehabilitation Counseling Psychology from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a Fellow in the American Psychological
Association, Past President of the Division of Rehabilitation Psychology
of the American Psychological Association and the National Council
on Rehabilitation Education, and President-Elect of the American
Rehabilitation Counseling Association.
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