Teleworkers with disabilities: characteristics and accommodation use.

Background: The prevalence of telework among people with disabilities is not as great as the general population, despite the accommodative benefits of telework.

Objective: This study of employment and accommodation use patterns of people with disabilities investigates relationships between functional abilities, work location and nature, and accommodation use.

Participants: Currently employed subjects with disabilities were recruited from client lists of research, technical assistance, and service provision centers, as well as through over 100 social networking venues focused on individuals with disabilities.

Telework rationale and implementation for people with disabilities: considerations for employer policymaking.

Background: Telework has been promoted as a viable workplace accommodation for people with disabilities since the 1990s, when information and communication technologies (ICT) had developed sufficiently to facilitate its widespread adoption. This initial research and accompanying policy recommendations were prescriptive in nature and frequently aimed at employers.

Objective: This article adds to existing policy models for facilitating successful telework outcomes for people with disabilities.

Workplace accommodations and unmet needs specific to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the workplace accommodations used by individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, to report the perceived impact of the accommodations and to identify unmet needs with respect to workplace accommodations.

Method: Individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing participated in an online survey. Respondents identified with one of four levels of functional hearing ability and selected from descriptions of workplace accommodations.

Analysis of localized erythema using clinical indicators and spectroscopy.

Localized erythema is regularly used as an indicator of post-ischemic events, including reactive hyperemia and Stage I pressure ulcers. The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel definition of a Stage I ulcer includes both visual and nonvisual indicators in part to improve identification in darkly pigmented skin. A prospective, repeated-measures design was used to collect information on pressure-induced erythema that includes reactive hyperemia and Stage I pressure ulcers with an emphasis on distinguishing indicators in light and dark skin The relationships among clinical indicators (skin assessments) and results from tissue reflectance spectroscopy, as well as the clinical utility of spectroscopy for discerning tissue blanching status, were examined in a convenience sample of 76 inpatients and outpatients (95 test/control site pairs).

Characterizing reactive hyperemia via tissue reflectance spectroscopy in response to an ischemic load across gender, age, skin pigmentation and diabetes.

Purpose: Pressure ulcers represent a major secondary complication for amputees with diabetes and further complications may arise since ulcers are particularly hard to heal in this population. This study characterized the hyperemic response to a localized ischemic load in people with diabetes and amputation and compared it to that of subjects without diabetes or amputation.

Subjects: Case-control study matching subjects by gender, age, skin pigmentation, and smoking status.