Independent Living: Employees with disabilities can work to dispel myths
Every October marks National Disability Employment Awareness Month. October also is also a good time to clear up myths and attitudinal barriers that still hinder people with disabilities who want to work from obtaining employment.
While the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 has made great strides in the area of employment for people with disabilities, 20 years after the ADA took effect, only one-third of Americans with disabilities were employed, even though more than two-thirds of unemployed people with disabilities said they would like to work. Clearly, we must even the playing field and how we do that depends on employers changing their attitudes about hiring people with disabilities — and that means getting the facts straight.
Here are some tangible ways to tackle the employment and disability quagmire.
