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Abilities of People With Disabilities

Chris Moore

Assumption: A person with mental retardation cannot be trained to
perform a job as well as an employee without a disability.
Fact: Over two thirds of Pizza Hut employees have mental retardation.
The average turnover rate (the rate at which workers quit) of these employees is
a modest twenty percent compared to a one hundred and fifty percent turnover of
employees without disabilities.
It is this kind of thinking that limits the ability of people with
disabilities to find employment more than any other factor. In an E-Mail on
Thursday, November 7, 1996, Barbara Sommer, Disabilities Employment Coordinator
for the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission, stated, "The most significant
barrier to employment for [people with disabilities] truly is attitude." One way
to show the effects of discrimination of people with disabilities in the
workplace is to show ways people with disabilities are discriminated against and
to show what......

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