Life Span Perspectives on Disability and Work
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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 (1998) 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 to poor self-esteem and a decreased sense of self-efficacy. Due to this situation, many people with disabilities are unemployed (pp. 51-2). Based on the above observation, the thesis of Conyers et al.'s (1998) article is as follows: In spite of their formal college education that provides them with professional skills, people with disabilities still need to overcome considerable difficulties in developing their career, compared to their non-disabled counterparts (p. 53). In order to elicit the unique and direct perspectives of people with disabilities, Conyers et al. (1998) selected an appropriate research approachùqualitative researchùfor their study by conducting individual open-ended interviews with nine participants. Since the research into the career development of people with disabilities is still in its infancy, Conyers et al.'s (1998) use of open-ended interviews allowed them to lea
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