According to the US Census Bureau, one in five people in the United States (or 56.7 million people) live with a disability. More than 50% of these people report to be living with a severe disability that makes it difficult to get a job or take care of themselves. The reintegration into the working world …
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When I was injured in a car accident and became a wheelchair user in 1985, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) didn’t exist. The ADA was passed in 1990, but wasn’t fully implemented until 1992; so for years, I dealt with a completely inaccessible world. Restaurants, bars, movie theaters, and malls may as well have …
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ears ago, after the ADA was passed and signed into law, I was recruited to work at a major national corporation as a Human Resources Specialist after having rolled into the SVP of Human Resources’ office to pitch an event sponsorship.
It all started with the enacting of a law, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. First, we had to force our entry into businesses with regulations that allowed us to even begin to be seen as consumers