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Living with Developmental Disabilities

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Living with Developmental Disabilities

While the momentum for creating workplace opportunities for the

disabled grows stronger in the United States each day, it is also gaining

momentum overseas. One organization with a unique perspective on this is the YAI

Network of New York City.

This week, host Ray Zardetto speaks with Dr. Levy, YAI’s

President and CEO about the philosophy of “inclusion, independence,

individualization and productivity” that helped grow YAI to an organization that

provides education, healthcare services and employment support to over 20,000

people – or “consumers” as Dr. Levy refers to them – every day.

Then, for more of the overseas perspective, Ray will be joined by

Josh Rubin, Director, Policy and Planning and Samowicz, Senior Director of

Education and Training at YAI to describe a unique agreement that the

organization recently concluded with the Kingdom of Jordan to help that country

create an infrastructure for aiding its developmentally disabled citizens.

Dr. Levy will also discuss YAI’s current initiatives to help place

its consumers with New York City area companies, particularly with KPMG, one of

the Big Four accounting firms. For that part of the discussion, Ray will be

joined by Steve Clemente, KPMG LLP’s Principle in Charge of Operations.

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