The following fact sheets and practical guides will help you support job seekers with different types of disability.
What is disability?
Provides interesting facts on disability, including a general definition on disability and disability types. Also provides information on the wider debates and opinions around disability.
How to communicate with job seekers with disability
Tips on communicating effectively with job seekers and employees with disability, particularly during an initial interview process.
Learning, intellectual and autism
Three detailed fact sheets providing information and direction on supporting people with specific learning disability, intellectual disability and autism.
Psychiatric disability and mental illness
Six detailed fact sheets providing information and direction on supporting people experiencing psychosis, depression or anxiety, substance abuse, personality disorder, complex coexisting disorders and episodic conditions. Also looks at whether work will be too stressful for people with psychiatric disability and mental illness.
Sensory and speech disability
Two detailed fact sheets providing information and direction on supporting people who are blind or vision impaired and people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Physical disability
Detailed fact sheet providing information and direction on supporting people with physical disability.
Neurological disability
Detailed fact sheet providing information and direction on supporting people with acquired brain injury.
Other conditions
Two detailed fact sheets providing information and direction on supporting people with chronic illness and people with foetal alcohol syndrome.
Job seekers unable to work at full productivity
Detailed fact sheet providing information and direction on supporting people unable to work at full productivity, including information on the Supported Wage System.