Career Development and Disability

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This is a paper about career development and disability. The paper discusses career problems encountered by adults with sensory or physical disabilities and explains the various difficulties that must be overcome. The paper also looks into the impact that the expectations of others have on individuals with disabilities.

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In their article, "Life-span Perspectives on Disability and Work: A Qualitative Study", Liza M. Conyers, Lynn C. Koch and Edna Mora Szymanski offered an insightful perspective of the career problems encountered by adults with sensory or physical disabilities. For them the transition from college to the working world often entails the need to reach higher expectations with decreased assistance in a wide variety of areas. Their struggles to carve a niche in the working world by overcoming various obstacles associated with their disability, ethnicity and gender can often lead..."

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