The University of Calgary SUMMARY is home to scholars in 16 faculties (offering more than Nearly two-thirds of adults with a developmental disability in Canada are 80 academic programs) and 36 Research Institutes and Centres not in the workforce, according to findings from the 2012 Canadian Survey including The School of Public on Disability. [...] Three in four respondents not working at the time of the survey and researchers, the work of The reported that their disability had created barriers to employment. [...] Disability cited as the main barrier to employment Of those surveyed, almost three-quarters of persons with DD and not in the labour force reported that their condition was a barrier to employment. [...] The low rate of labour force participation among working-age adults with DD is indicative of labour market constraints requiring public policy responses in order to promote this group’s entry and retention in the labour market. [...] Stephanie Dunn is a Research Associate in the Health Policy team at The School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary.