Accommodation: This track is designed to provide practical tools and techniques for accommodating job seekers and workers with all types of disabilities. Sessions will specifically address accommodation situations and solutions for individuals with psychiatric and cognitive impairments, motor and mobility impairments, and sensory impairments.

Concurrent sessions include such topics as ergonomics, enforcing standards of behavior and conduct and accommodating employees with psychiatric and cognitive disabilities, costs and benefits of accommodating workers, accommodating people with respiratory impairments, testing accommodations, and focus on technology.

Employer Policies and Practices (EPP): This track is designed to provide a forum for employers to learn about and share innovative policies and practices for the successful hiring, accommodation, and retention of employees with disabilities. Concurrent sessions include such topics as recruiting, hiring, and employing qualified individuals with disabilities; accommodation policy and practice; the business case for employing people with disabilities; evacuation and safety; and how to take advantage of employer focused resources.

ADA/Legal: This track is designed to provide information and strategies to prevent expensive and time-consuming litigation by complying with such laws as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act, Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), workers’ compensation legislation, and state fair employment practice laws.

Concurrent sessions include such topics as current and pending ADA litigation, the interplay of the ADA with other laws like FMLA, the ADA and the employment life cycle, and medical inquiries under the ADA.