Assessing Interests and Abilities
Taking a closer look at your interests and abilities can help you make better choices whenever you're faced with big decisions regarding the future. Before setting your goals, it's a good idea to think about what you enjoy doing most, what you're good at, and how challenges that lie a...
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Determining Your Marketable Skills
Many of your strengths and abilities are "marketable." This means that they are of value to employers. Your marketable skills can be applied to specific jobs. Employers will want you to have both job-specific skills and the right disposition and interpersonal skills to adapt to the wo...
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Strengths vs. Challenges in the Workplace
Everyone brings different strengths and talents to their job. However, it is also fair to say that individuals with and without LD will find certain job-related tasks to be difficult and even problematic. The following is a list of some of the specific ways that your learning disabil...
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How Can I Learn a Trade? Internships, Technical Education, and More
Two excellent ways to explore your career interests and learn a specific trade are internships and apprenticeships. Both experiences allow you to observe and assist working people. Most offer valuable training that will help you learn the skills required for a particular job or career...
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Tips for Workplace Success
You’ve gotten a job. Congratulations! Here are some suggestions for working around your learning disability so you can become a productive, valued worker.
Telling your boss about your learning disability is called disclosure. Disclosure is entirely up to you, so consider the pros ...
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Common Problems and Easy Solutions in the Workplace for People with LD
Here are some typical job problems which cause difficulty for people with learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, dyscalculia, or dysgraphia.They are followed by possibilities for reasonable accommodations: Job problem: You have severe difficulty reading.
Possible accommodations:
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