SELF-EMPLOYMENT
A wide range of services aimed at supporting people who wish to start
or grow their own business. This can include everything from
developing the initial business idea to getting the business up and
running. Initially, this service draws heavily on the job design
and personal profiling approaches; there can then be a period of
ongoing support and mentoring. I have developed my own
self-employment training course, Stepping
into Business, from which I build tailored training programmes for
individual clients, taking into account their specific business and
disability needs.
A large number of people with disabilities choose self-employment as
their way of working. Whether this is because of difficulties in
getting a conventional job or because they have had to develop some of
the strong personal characteristics and attributes necessary in
business, they will inevitably have needs in their business which arise
directly or indirectly from their disability. My self-employment
work attempts to capitlaize on the abilities of the individual, to
minimize the impact of their disability, but not to ignore problems
that may arise from that disability.
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