What are good strategies to raise awareness in the workplace about diversity and persons with disabilities? What are reasonable accommodations to make for individuals with disabilities? What are the issues when considering the hiring of a person with cognitive or psychiatric disabilities? Learning disabilities? Brain injury?

On July 26, the 10th anniversary of the part of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that prohibits job discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities, the Program on Employment and Disability (PED) in the School of Industrial and Labor Relation at Cornell University is offering a new web site to answer these and similar questions that human resource professionals face in trying to hire and retain workers with disabilities.

More than three dozen searchable articles are available free at http://www.hrtips.org . The site also includes a detailed glossary of almost 100 terms, numerous checklists to help HR professionals improve accessibility of current workplace policies and procedures, as well as links to relevant resources. In addition, reports on issues related to employment and disability are available at http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ped .

Since the passage of the ADA, Cornell has served as a resource on a wide range of topics involving disabilities in the workplace, including nondiscrimination regulations, policies, practices and accommodations of specific disabilities, says Susanne Bruyere, director of the PED.

The site is funded, in part, by the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.