By Nancy Doyle — 2019
When disability isn’t disclosed, we create an invisible layer of additional work for the individual which will affect their productivity.
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Individuals with disabilities frequently encounter workplace discrimination, bias, exclusion, and career plateaus—meaning their employers lose out on enormous innovation and talent potential.
New research has found nine meaningful reasons that prevent people with disabilities from seeking work.
Ableism centers around the notion that people with disabilities are imperfect and need fixing.
Netflix and the BBC will work together, in an unprecedented move, to promote disabled creatives on and off screen.
Women with disabilities are often doubly penalized—for being women and for being disabled.
Insider spoke to a variety of individuals who have different disabilities to highlight some of the biggest issues and types of discrimination that they face in the workplace.
We should remember that while disabled people can become good at asking for help, few of us are entirely comfortable with it.
The author and clinical psychologist Andrew Solomon examines the disabilities that ramps and designated parking spots don’t address.
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Ableism refers to bias, prejudice, and discrimination against people with disabilities. It hinges on the idea that people with disabilities are less valuable than nondisabled people.
Most students learn that Keller, born June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Ala., was left deaf and blind after contracting a high fever at 19 months, and that her teacher Anne Sullivan taught her braille, lip-reading, finger spelling and eventually, how to speak.