{"id":469719,"date":"2021-04-01T09:03:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T13:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/?p=469719"},"modified":"2021-04-01T09:03:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T13:03:23","slug":"creative-spirit-releases-first-research-study-hiredifferent-to-shed-light-on-employment-barriers-among-individuals-with-intellectual-developmental-and-learning-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/creative-spirit-releases-first-research-study-hiredifferent-to-shed-light-on-employment-barriers-among-individuals-with-intellectual-developmental-and-learning-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Spirit Releases First Research Study, #HireDifferent, to Shed Light On Employment Barriers Among Individuals with Intellectual, Developmental and Learning Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nStudy Reveals Lowest Intention to Hire Individuals with Disabilities, Despite Exponential Growth in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts at Large and Mid-size Companies
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NEW YORK, April 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Creative Spirit is the first 501c3 non-profit organization devoted to finding fair-wage integrated positions at the best companies in the world for individuals with intellectual, developmental and learning disabilities (IDDs) \u2013 the largest, most impoverished minority population. Those with IDD\u2019s are unemployed at an astounding 85% and there has been no meaningful progress since the passing of the ADA over 30 years ago. In honor of Autism Awareness Month and in anticipation of the growing number of college graduates with disabilities, Creative Spirit released the first large-scale research study, titled #HireDifferent<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>that reveals the obstacles to hiring neurodiverse talent. Creative Spirit engaged 250 corporate decision-makers responsible for hiring to determine the attitudes, behaviors and barriers to hiring those with IDD\u2019s into fair-wage integrated positions.<\/p>\n

Diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace has been challenged with many moments of reckoning amid the #BLM movement and insidious social happenings in the past year. Individuals with IDDs are a minority constituency that repeatedly get lost amid talks about DE&I. The premise of the research is to capture baseline hiring practices data, hiring data specifically related to IDDs, and a reaction to the Creative Spirit model.<\/p>\n

\u201cNeurodiversity is a sector of DE&I that is most often overlooked in the workforce and this has gone on for far too long,\u201d said Laurel Rossi, Co-Founder and CEO of Creative Spirit. \u201cThe barriers found in the study are things we can easily overcome \u2013 especially in an era where technology prevails, there is a growing minimum wage and tremendous workforce mobility. Our goal in commissioning and publishing this research is to provide direction for businesses \u2013 guiding them towards hiring, retaining and supporting individuals with IDDs and allowing candidates with disabilities to become a fundamental part of their hiring process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The main findings derived from the research clearly indicated:<\/p>\n