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JJsList.com Disability Awareness Player Exclusive Album Release!

04/26/16 - Disability Awareness Players, Events, Good Web Finds, Inspiring People, JJ's List Fun, jjslist.com, No Boundaries - 1 Comment

Tim Finnegan has a long and storied history with the JJsList.com Disability Awareness Players.

He was first a participant in the Search, Inc. No Boundaries program and shortly thereafter became a Disability Awareness Player who helped train over 1500 staff members in how to engage and…

Disability Awareness Training at Skokie School!

04/19/16 - Disability Awareness Players, Disability Awareness Training, Disability-Aware Businesses, Education, Good Web Finds, Guest Blogger, JJ's List Fun, jjslist.com, Person-First Language - 1 Comment

On April 8th, 2016, the JJsList.com Disability Awareness Players did a Disability Awareness Training for the 5th and 6th graders at the Skokie School in the New Trier Township school district 36. All 420 students and 50 staff members were trained!

The Skokie School had a ‘Health and…

Ask Adrian Anything!

- Business News, Disability Awareness Players, Disability Employment and Housing, Disability-Aware Businesses, Featured Blogger of the Month, Good Web Finds, Guest Blogger, Inspiring People, jjslist.com, Mentorship, No Boundaries, Search, Inc. - 8 Comments

Welcome to the third installment of “Ask Adrian Anything!” This is intended to give our readers an opportunity to communicate directly with our intern, Adrian, about his experiences in the workplace. It will be conducted in an interview format with Benjamin asking the questions provided by…

Ask Adrian Anything!

04/04/16 - Accessibility in Public, Disability Awareness Players, Disability Employment and Housing, Disability-Aware Businesses, Education, Featured Blogger of the Month, Guest Blogger, jjslist.com, No Boundaries, No Boundaries, Search, Inc., Social Enterprise - 9 Comments

Welcome to the second installment of “Ask Adrian Anything!” This is intended to give our readers an opportunity to communicate directly with our intern, Adrian, about his experiences in the workplace. It will be conducted in an interview format with Benjamin asking the questions provided by…

People With Disabilities Make Great Entrepreneurs!

03/31/16 - Business News, Disability Employment and Housing, Disability-Aware Businesses, Disability-Aware Service, Education, Good Web Finds, jjslist.com, Social Enterprise, Uncategorized, Using jjslist.com - 6 Comments

Some say that entrepreneurs think about the world differently from other people. Well that’s certainly true of those of us who have disabilities!

People who don’t have disabilities often take life’s simple activities for granted – getting dressed, walking down the street, understanding an email –…

Ask Adrian Anything!

03/28/16 - Disability Awareness Players, Disability Employment and Housing, Disability-Aware Businesses, Disability-Aware Service, Employment First Act, Featured Blogger of the Month, jjslist.com, No Boundaries, No Boundaries, Search, Inc., Social Enterprise, Uncategorized - 14 Comments

Welcome to the first installment of “Ask Adrian Anything!” This is intended to give our readers an opportunity to communicate directly with our intern, Adrian, about his experiences in the workplace. It will be conducted in an interview format with Benjamin asking the questions provided…

How To Analyze Job Postings As a Person With a Disability

03/02/16 - Accessibility in Public, ADA, Business News, Disability Awareness Training, Disability Employment and Housing, Disability Law, Disability-Aware Businesses, Disability-Aware Service, Education, Employment First Act, jjslist.com, No Boundaries, No Boundaries, Search, Inc. - 2 Comments

When looking for jobs as a person with a disability, you want to be smart and strategic about the process. You are interviewing a business just as much as they are interviewing you! Do your research and find out what company will be a good…

Art Thou Winning Us Over, Starbucks?

02/17/16 - Accessibility in Public, Business News, Disability Awareness Training, Disability Employment and Housing, Disability in the Media, Disability-Aware Businesses, Disability-Aware Service, Employment First Act, Good Web Finds, jjslist.com, Social Enterprise, Videos - 6 Comments

Starbucks, Oh ye of the venti, grande, and talls! Are you making a genuine commitment to hiring people with disabilities?

Recently, a video went viral that showcased a young adult with autism working at a Starbucks. The video put music to his disability and gave him…

Unexpected Behaviors At Work

02/11/16 - Accessibility in Public, Business News, Disability Awareness Training, Disability Employment and Housing, Disability-Aware Businesses, Education, Employment First Act, jjslist.com, No Boundaries, No Boundaries, Search, Inc., Social Enterprise - 2 Comments

When we go to work, we expect to do the job that we have been assigned to. It is usually pretty straightforward. Your boss gives you a list of tasks to complete and you do them. It’s a professional environment where you know what’s going…

Working As Someone On The Autism Spectrum

01/27/16 - Disability Awareness Players, Disability Awareness Training, Disability-Aware Businesses, Education, Guest Blogger, Inspiring People, jjslist.com, No Boundaries, No Boundaries, Uncategorized - 4 Comments

I am one of many adults on the Autism Spectrum.

This article is about how I picked a skill as a means for compensating for any perceived weakness in order to live a more fulfilled life.

I figured out at a very early age that I loved to…