8:40-8:50 Meet Your Neighbor (JanLyssa Serenity)
[8:47] Glitteractica Cookie: JanLyssa Serenity, please take a seat on
stage!
[8:47] Ricken Flow: /nods at Glitter
[8:47] Gentle Heron gave you National Health Care Day of Service
note.
[8:48] Penguin Kuhn: nodes too
[8:48] Glitteractica Cookie: (THANKS ricken)
[8:48] Laysi Itano gave you YOUR PERSONAL INVITE- LIMITED ADMITTANCE.
[8:48] any1 Gynoid: *passes tissue box*
[8:48] JANLyssa Serenity: Thanks for inviting JAN to speak with you
today. Let me start by saying that thanks to JAN’s funding agency, the
U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy, JAN
is celebrating its 25 year anniversary.
[8:49] JANLyssa Serenity: hopefully everybody can hear me - if you
have trouble, I have a transcript I can hand out afterward
[8:49] JANLyssa Serenity: Even though years of experience give the
staff more accommodation examples to share, one of the main aspects of
being the JAN Avatar is that we are charged with keeping JAN up-to-
date. Lucky for us we now have a
[8:49] JANLyssa Serenity: great deal of options when it comes to
using technology to increase the accessibility of the workplace. And,
the ever-changing fact of accommodations pushes us to find unique ways
to enhance workplace productivity.
[8:49] JANLyssa Serenity: Hopefully you will come away wanting to
know more about JAN.
[8:49] JANLyssa Serenity: So, how can you use JAN? Well, our primary
mission is to focus on solving job accommodation issues. This almost
always includes providing timely information on the Americans with
Disabilities Act as well as assistive technologies.
[8:50] JANLyssa Serenity: JAN also provides information on
entrepreneurship, which takes the issues of job accommodations and
forces us to think outside of the box.
[8:50] JANLyssa Serenity: What do we bring to you at no cost? Well,
25 years of service, professional experience in all types of
industries and jobs, a national perspective from traveling and talking
to different parts of the United States,
[8:50] JANLyssa Serenity: ease of use via the Web and telephone, and
confidential conversations. You can be honest and up front with JAN
Consultants. There isn’t one situation we haven’t heard or dealt with
from an unbiased perspective.
[8:50] Youri Ashton: pets the doggy
[8:50] JANLyssa Serenity: Who is our audience? Primarily our audience
base is employers, individuals with disabilities, conditions, or
impairments, and their family members, service providers, and other
such as attorneys, physicians, and reporters.
[8:51] JANLyssa Serenity: JAN received 38,000 contacts last year with
6,000 of those being electronic contacts (emails and JoDs). JAN also
receives 3.5 to 5 million Webpage requests per year.
[8:51] JANLyssa Serenity: How do we work? Well, when your call or
email JAN, your question will be forwarded to the specialist on duty.
We are split among four teams. Our largest team and busiest team is
the motor/mobility team.
[8:51] JANLyssa Serenity: The questions range from anything inside to
outside of the body. Many of these calls include traditional
disabilities such as multiple sclerosis, quadriplegia, cerebral
palsy,
[8:51] JANLyssa Serenity: and non-traditional impairments such as
carpal tunnel syndrome, back conditions, and other industrial-type
injuries. We also deal with body odor, intestinal disorders, and
reproductive conditions.
[8:51] Glitteractica Cookie: not supposed to pet working service dogs
you know. ;)
[8:51] JANLyssa Serenity: The cognitive/psychiatric team provides
information on accommodations for individuals with learning
disabilities, bipolar disorder, depression, traumatic brain injury,
and other neurological conditions.
[8:51] Jenaia Morane: yeah Max is working ;-)
[8:51] Louise Later: :))
[8:52] JANLyssa Serenity: The sensory team deals with conditions that
involve respiratory, vision, and hearing impairments. Conditions such
as diabetes and HIV fall under the sensory team.
[8:52] JANLyssa Serenity: JAN also has an entrepreneurship team,
which provides information on how individuals with disabilities can
start their own businesses.
[8:52] JANLyssa Serenity: Let me give you just a couple of recent
examples related to increasing accessibility for an individual with a
disability.
[8:52] JANLyssa Serenity: When JAN talks about accessibility and
technology, we take a broad view of what it means to increase
accessibility.
[8:52] Youri Ashton: max is a good dog, so not bad to give it a bit
of reconnision :p
[8:52] JANLyssa Serenity: For example, JAN had a case involving a
surgeon who had difficulty standing on hard floors for long periods.
JAN provided information on anti-fatigue matting for an operating room
environment and the individual was accommodated.
[8:52] JANLyssa Serenity: JAN also recently had a case involving a
junior high teacher with multiple sclerosis who was preparing to
return to work after a year of medical leave.
[8:52] JANLyssa Serenity: She had difficulty standing due to lower
extremity weakness so could not write on the chalkboard as much as
needed. JAN provided information on LCD tablets, and the individual
was accommodated.
[8:53] JANLyssa Serenity: JAN recently consulted on a case involving
a service member returning to work who had difficulty concentrating
when his back was to the opening in his cubicle. JAN provided
information on a monitor mirror, and the individual was accommodated.
[8:53] JANLyssa Serenity: JAN also provides information technical
issues related to accessible Web design, so it's an interesting place
to be a virtual consultant.
[8:53] JANLyssa Serenity: So, what can you expect when you start with
JAN? Well, it depends on what meets your needs. We run the gamut of
workplace issues, focusing on accommodation and ADA consultation, over
200 technical assistance documents,
[8:53] JANLyssa Serenity: several online tools to assist with process
and guidance questions, benefit / cost research, and the ability to
help push information back to our funding agency to make changes in
policy development.
[8:53] JANLyssa Serenity: Thank you for this opportunity, and contact
JAN at
[8:54] JANLyssa Serenity: (800) 526-7234 (V)
[8:54] JANLyssa Serenity: (877) 781-9403 (TTY)
[8:54] JANLyssa Serenity: http://www.jan.wvu.edu
[8:54] JANLyssa Serenity: [[mailto:j[[groups/unlock?hl=en&_done=/group/TechSoup-Second-Life/browse_thread/thread/5405b679e19a6d8?hl=en&msg=492043eec3a737d9|...]]@jan.wvu.edu|j[[groups/unlock?hl=en&_done=/group/TechSoup-Second-Life/browse_thread/thread/5405b679e19a6d8?hl=en&msg=492043eec3a737d9|...]]@jan.wvu.edu]]
[8:54] JANLyssa Serenity: Please call, e-mail, or visit us on the Web
and on our Social Networks! Or of course, contact us in Second Life
by sending a message to JAN Xomotron or JANLyssa Serenity.
[8:54] JANLyssa Serenity: http://slurl.com/secondlife/AMO/205/217/23
[8:54] JANLyssa Serenity: Our office is currently just about ready to
be up and running, just needs a few tweaks, but you're all welcome to
visit!
[8:55] Ricken Flow claps
[8:55] Robin Roar: <clap,clap>
[8:55] millay Freschi: Applause!!
[8:55] LizaJune Stoop: Nice presentation.
[8:55] Maura Hoxley: Claps!
[8:55] Smash Lane: Awesome JAN
[8:55] Gentle Heron: Very valuable resource. Thanks Lyssa.
[8:55] Muse Carmona claps
[8:55] millay Freschi: important work
[8:56] JANLyssa Serenity: Thanks for having us here, and let us know
if you have any questions
[8:56] Maura Hoxley: I have some thing to add...... If I may real
quick.
[8:56] cowgrl Crystal: Very Helpful information!!!
[8:56] JennyLin Arashi: Will the JAN Second Life location be linked
to your website?
[8:56] JANLyssa Serenity: Yes, it will be linked on our site
[8:56] JANLyssa Serenity: Go ahead, Maura
[8:56] Dusty Artaud: ty Lyssa, very good presentation.
[8:56] Veri Oddfellow: Sorry all .. Brad Lewis/Veri Oddfellow here
from Great STrides .. *smiles*
[8:56] JennyLin Arashi: Fabulous.
[8:56] Maura Hoxley: Thanks to meeting JANLyssa Serenity, through SL
and specifically NPC... The Narcolepsy Network will be asking
representatives from her Network to join us as speakers at our RL
Conference in Jacksonville Florida this coming October. I just want to
point out that though she is less than 3 months old in SL, Her
presence here has already had a RL impact. I think she is doing a
wonderful job!
[8:56] JennyLin Arashi: Thank you!
[8:56] Impeccably Peccable: Seth Gonzales, Boomer Esiason Foundation,
NYC, http://www.esiason.org/, @cysticfibrosis
[8:56] Impeccably Peccable: Sorry I'm late
[8:56] JANLyssa Serenity: Thanks Maura :)
[8:57] Gentle Heron: Good networking, Lyssa and Maura!!!
[8:57] Ricken Flow: /waves at Impeccably
[8:57] Serene Jewell: Great work Jan!
[8:57] Maura Hoxley: no thank YOU!
[8:57] CJ27 Jigsaw: Applause!!
[8:57] Louise Later: JAN will be speaking at Helenn Keller day too
[8:57] Shinedown Palianta: important target nice work
[8:58] Glitteractica Cookie: Thanks again to our great presenters
from JAN