Human Resource Practices, IT in the Work Place

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 that relate to employment outcomes to people with disabilities. The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) Research and Demonstration Project that she is focusing on for this session is a project in collaboration with the Society for Human Resource Management, to address ways to improve the employment practices covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The current focus in the past two years has been on Information Technology (IT) accessibility in the workplace for applicants and employees with disabilities. 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). Dr. Bruyère also serves as Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator of the Cornell Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) for Economic Research on Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities. Susanne holds a doctoral degree in Rehabilitation Counseling Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association, and Past President of the Division (22) of Rehabilitation Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA), the National Council on Rehabilitation Education (NCRE), and the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association (ARCA).

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