Workers with Disabilities

1. Business Hiring & Retaining Workers with Disabilities A Radical Perspective Shift for Society Thursday, July 21, 2011

2. Gary KarpAuthor, Speaker, Trainer www.moderndisability.com

3. 70-minute presentation The Agenda 20-minute Q&A

4. 70-minutepresentation The Agenda The Foundation How It Looks

5. The story has changed Why This Conversation? Important business issue Affects us personally

6. Who arepeople with disabilities?

10. There are 54 millionof them in the united states.

11. There are 24 million of them ...who are working age,and report having a disability. Spinal CordInjury

12. They are people with… mobility ophysical sensory or cognitive Post-PolioSyndrome impairments.

13. There are people with… visible or invisibledisabilities. FacialDisfigurement

14. There are people with… Childhood or adult-acquireddisabilities. Fibro-myalgia

15. There are people with… significant or nominal degreesof impairment. Blindness

16. There are people with… Identify with having a disabilityor not. Down’sSyndrome

17. They are your… neighbors, yourcolleagues, yourfamily members. Dyslexia

18. They are… people. Real, whole people. ShortStature

19. There are 24 millionof them ...who are working age,and report having a disability. Spinal CordInjury

20. 24 Million Employed 72% Unemployed

21. 24 Million 17.25 Million Not Working Employed 72% Unemployed

22. 24 Million 10.75 Million Want to Work 63% prefer to work Employed Don’t want to work

23. 3.5 million can and want to work! 24 Million Employed 67% prefer to work, but can’t Don’t want to work

24. Changed Their lives have MuscularDystrophy

25. What it meansto have a disabilityis different... LimbLoss • ...than it has ever been before in history.

26. Obstacles have fallen. ...and possibilities haveexploded. Diabetes

27. ? Question

28. Stay-at-Work / Return-to-Work

29. Stay-at-Work / Return-to-Work

30. Stay-at-Work / Return-to-Work The fundamental reason for most lost workdays and lost jobs is not medical necessity, but the non-medical decisionmaking involved in and the poor functioning of a little-known, but fundamental practice employed by U.S. and Canadian disability benefits systems – the stay-at-work/return-to-work process.

31. TheInteractive Process

32. TheInteractive Process Should be solid with your HR and Disability Management departments / staff.

33. ? Question

34. Changed have Things

35. are more mobile. People With Disabilities Spina Bifida

36. more mobile Quadriplegia

37. more mobile Quadriplegia

38. more mobile Quadriplegia

39. more mobile CerebralPalsy

40. live in a moreaccessibleworld. People With Disabilities MultipleSclerosis

41. more accessible ChemicalSensitivity

42. more accessible TheCurb Cut Effect ChemicalSensitivity

43. more accessible Deafness

44. UniversalDesign. Epilepsy

45. are more educated. People With Disabilities ...and so are more career-oriented. Vision Loss

46. more educated BipolarDisorder

47. more educated BipolarDisorder

48. are healthierand more active. People With Disabilities ThalidomideBirth Effect

49. more healthy Carpal TunnelSyndrome

50. more healthy Carpal TunnelSyndrome