I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.-Carl W. Buehner One of the most central, constant, and marginalizing discrepancies between people with and without disabilities is the opportunity to work. Unemployment rates are nearly two and a half times higher for people with disabilities than for people without disabilities (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2017), a dismal discrepancy that has become the norm (Stapleton & Burkhauser, 2003). Among the reasons for this discrepancy, many center on social aspects of the workplace. Literature and legislation acknowledge that people with disabilities seeking to gain or keep employment experience numerous social hazards as the result of both real deficits (
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