Students with Disabilities

Welcome to the Students with Disabilities Connections Community!

The Career Center recognizes that social identities and career experiences often intersect and that Villanovans may face specific challenges navigating the career development process as they explore the world of work. This is a space to connect students with disabilities, alumni with disabilities and employers with one another through networking, professional development and educational events and programming. We will continually develop this community as we become aware of additional opportunities to advance the growth of all members of our community. Learn more about how jobs and internships featured on this page are sourced.

Graduate School & Scholarship Opportunity: Become a Special Education Visual Impairment/Blindness Teacher!

Published on October 8, 2024

Are you passionate about education and looking to make a difference in the lives of students with disabilities? Vanderbilt University’s Visual Disabilities Program, led by Dr. Rachel Schles, is here to help you make an impact!

Why This Program?

There …

By John McGranaghan
John McGranaghan Assistant Director of Career Development
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2025 AAPD Summer Internship Program

Published on September 17, 2024

AAPD’s Internship Program places current students and recent graduates with disabilities in paid internships. Interns build leadership skills, explore career opportunities, and connect with the disability community.

For Summer 2025, AAPD will offer a hybrid internship program with some interns …

By John McGranaghan
John McGranaghan Assistant Director of Career Development
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How To Disclose Your Illness Or Disability To Your Employer

Published on September 10, 2024

How To Disclose Your Illness Or Disability To Your Employer

By Hannah Olson

After graduating from college, Lyme disease nearly derailed my early career in Washington, DC. I was hooked up to an IV for 8 hours a day and …

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Skill Building Courses

Accessible Video: Caption, Search, and Compliance Strategies

Taught by Richard Harrington
Ensuring that your video reaches the widest audience possible is essential to its success—and often a legal requirement. In this…
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Inclusive Typography

Taught by Sabrena Deal
What makes typography inclusive? Font and formatting choices can maximize readability to the largest possible audience. In this course, senior…
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Creating Safe Spaces for Tough Conversations at Work

Taught by Madecraft
Tough conversations are exactly that: tough. They might involve topics that include heated opinions, arguments, or biases. But having these…
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Foundations of Accessible Elearning

Taught by Oliver Schinkten
Providing accommodations to make learning accessible is a focal part of training and education. But how do you remove the…
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Digital Accessibility for the Modern Workplace

Taught by Hector Minto
The move towards a more digital workplace affects everyone, from newly remote employees to frontline workers. With technology being such…
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Supporting Allyship and Anti-Racism at Work

Taught by Dana Brownlee
While racism and discrimination are systemic problems that persist, each of us can play a role in helping to eliminate…
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Architectural Design: The WE Way for Workplace Inclusivity

Taught by Oshoke Abalu
Architecture defines how we live and work in the world. Designing environments for all people gives an organization the ability…
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Supporting Workers with Disabilities

Taught by Liz Johnson
A professional with a disability may also have an aptitude for project management, graphic design, or full-stack development. But physical…
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Leading Your Org on a Journey of Allyship

Taught by Vernā Myers
Join inclusion strategist, Harvard-trained-lawyer, author and instructor, Vernā Myers, to learn how to grow a more inclusive workplace and become…
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Digital Accessibility for the Modern Workplace (with Audio Descriptions)

Taught by Hector Minto
The move towards a more digital workplace affects everyone, from newly remote employees to frontline workers. With technology being such…
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Creating Accessible PDFs

Taught by Chad Chelius
Accessibility means making sure your content is available to as many people as possible. When you make your PDFs accessible,…
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iOS App Development: Accessibility

Taught by Kevin Favro
Millions of users rely on assistive technologies to help them make phone calls, send text messages, and access apps on…
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Accessibility for Web Design

Taught by Derek Featherstone
Are you doing everything you can to make sure your sites are accessible and easy to use? Learn practical accessibility…
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UX Foundations: Accessibility

Taught by Derek Featherstone
The Internet has removed many obstacles to communication and interaction. However, when websites, technologies, or tools are poorly designed, they…
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Inclusive Tech: Breaking into the Tech Industry

Taught by Shawna Curran
There exists a perception about who tech jobs are for. That perception doesn’t often include people from historically marginalized groups…
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Simplifying Web Development with Accessibility Best Practices

Taught by Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Too often in the world of web development, accessibility is given a low level of priority in the development stage…
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React: Accessibility

Taught by Kiara Contreras
Perhaps the greatest thing about the world wide web is that it makes so much information available to so many…
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Negotiating Your Compensation Package

Taught by Emilie Aries
Join career strategist and expert negotiator Emilie Aries as she walks through the process of successfully negotiating a new job…
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Negotiating Work Flexibility

Taught by Mike Gutman
What if you could be there more for your family, exercise outside in the daylight, prioritize important things that aren’t…
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React: Components, Context, and Accessibility

Taught by Eve Porcello
Once you’ve mastered the foundations of the React framework and its supporting architecture, you can start taking advantage of more…
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