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A Chance to See Disabilities as Assets

If more of us can see disability as both a challenge and an asset, the nation will be well on the way to fully using the job skills of all of it's citizens.

Many people know of Berkeley California as the birthplace, in the 1960's of
the free speech movement. Fewer people know that Berkeley also played a major
role in teh disability rights movement. It was here, also in the 1960's, that
Ed Roberts - a studnet with quadriplegia - became an outspoken advocate of the
cause.

See full article here: disabilities can be workplace assets