NIDILRR employment grantees are called to translate research into practical strategies that improve employment outcomes for people with disabilities. One way to accomplish that goal is through strong partnerships with employers and professionals who support disability employment outcomes, such as vocational rehabilitation (VR) agency staff and workforce professionals. This webinar features Dr.

Join KTER on Wednesday, August 5, from 2:00–3:00 p.m. ET for a practical discussion on how researchers can build meaningful partnerships with businesses to strengthen knowledge translation and disability employment research.

This info brief looks at research conducted by the National Research & Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision (NRTC), which is funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR).

The Center on Knowledge Translation for Employment Research (KTER Center) invites you to this webcast designed for researchers who are interested in strengthening how their work connects with external audiences—particularly employers and other business‑oriented stakeholders.

This webinar highlighted findings from the National Training, Education and Workforce Survey (NTEWS), focusing on what people with disabilities reported about their experiences with work-based learning, non-degree credentials, education, and employment.

The first KTER Center webinar was an event open only to employment grantees. We welcomed them to hear about all the new and continued ways that this NIDILRR-funded Center on Knowledge Translation for Employment Research (KTER Center) can support their NIDILRR-funded award's knowledge translation (KT) activity.

A systematic scoping review of research published between 2000 and 2020 on employment of people with disabilities, that was funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), was conducted by CeKTER (NIDILRR Grant #90DPEM0004, 2020–2025) researchers.

The Center on KTDRR sponsors an annual Online Knowledge Translation Conference for NIDILRR-funded grantees and others. This conference is designed to address strategies in the planning and implementation of effective and efficient KT approaches.

A systematic scoping review of research published between 2000 and 2020 on employment of people with disabilities, that was funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), was conducted by CeKTER researchers. All papers comparing people with disabilities to those without were excluded from the systematic scoping review.

In this brief we report on findings about employer-related determinants impacting the employment of people with disabilities, including the hiring and retention of employees with disabilities. Please note that all comparisons are always about corresponding peers with disabilities.