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Employers committed to the inclusion of qualified people with
disabilities in the competitive workplace and as consumers

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OCTOBER IS...

National Disability
Employment Awareness Month

 Workers with Disabiliites: Talent for a Winning Team

Join Our 5-Minute Celebration!

We have pulled together this short listing of amazing short videos and resources.  Just 5 minutes with any of these resources will give your internal discussion groups, diversity teams, managers, or any colleague a valued link to the year’s best thinking on disability employment from national and local resources. 

Bullet Walgreens Delivers: People with Disabilities are 40% of the workforce at their new plant and their efficiency rate is 20% higher!. Watch NBC video coverage!

Walgreens' Randy Lewis

Bullet There are right ways and wrong ways to interact with people with specific disabilities. The United Spinal Association has produced a great little handbook on disability etiquette. Available Here Online! (PDF) 

Disability Etiquette Publication

Bullet “Ability Awareness”, as this video is described, is a nice alternative to the “Disability Awareness” phrase that is used so often. Equally refreshing is the approach and the content of this innovative little 11-minute video. I'm Tyler

I'm Tyler
Bullet 54 million Americans with disabilities have $1 trillion in aggregate income to spend, but most companies overlook this customer base. Learn more about this issue from CNNfm's "Maverick in the Morning" show on Solutions Marketing Group. Solutions Marketing Group
Bullet Short online course that explains how the ADA applies to businesses in ten short lessons. Putting these lessons into practice will allow you to  welcome a whole new group of customers to purchase your goods, products, and services. Reaching Out to Customers with Disabilities.

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Bullet This terrific little book testifies to the phenomenal success of Habitat International, a Tennessee-based carpet manufacturer that proactively seeks out employees with disabilities. Able: How one company's disabled workforce became the key to extraordinary success

Able: How one company's disabled workforce became the key to extraordinary success.

 
 
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