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AAPD says internships, training and AI initiatives are expanding employment pathways for people with disabilities
Summary
Maria Town described AAPD’s long-running internship program, payment and expense supports, and new efforts to center disability in entrepreneurship and AI tools during an HTV interview. AAPD reported 75% of internship alumni employed full time and cited partnerships with employers and federal agencies.
Maria Town, CEO of the American Association of People with Disabilities, described the organization’s internship and employment programs on HTV’s Focus on Abilities, saying AAPD pays interns’ travel and housing costs, covers personal attendants when needed, provides technology and food stipends, and pays interns $18 an hour.
Town said the summer internship runs 10 weeks and the fall program 14 weeks. She said the program has operated since 2002 and that AAPD’s impact assessment shows about 75% of internship alumni are employed full time; she added…
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