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Do you already hire people with disabilities or maybe shifting your culture to create a more inclusive workplace? Check out this webinar and be sure to sign up your managers and HR personnel today! #MakeInclusionHappen

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month: a time to focus on ensuring that disabled workers have access to good jobs. Check out some ideas on how to keep a conversation about disability #inclusion going all year, not just in #NDEAM, at the link! #DiversityEquityInclusion

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Happy National Disability Independence Day! Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of individuals with disabilities. Let's embrace diversity and continue to work towards a more inclusive society. At Belko, no project is too big or too small because after all - "Your Vision Is……..Our Starting Point". #DisabilityIndependenceDay #AccessibilityForAll #AccessibilityMatters #AccessibleDesign #YourVisionOurStartingPoint #BelkoProjects🌍💫

I have long been a supporter of Cisco's DEI efforts and hope that wherever my future takes me, I can commit to more of my job helping advance under-represented communities and be an active ally and accomplice to all things Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion. "Happy Disability Pride Month"? Maybe... but let's make it an "INTENTIONAL & ACTIVE Disability Pride Month"! Let us all do our best to help remove the stigma by empowering PWD (People With Disabilities) and normalize ourselves with their needs and being a champion where we are able! #NotAllDisabiliesAreVisible #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent #PTSD #Depression #Anxiety (Interested in schooling yourself up a little? Check the list in the comments.)

Society very good at expediently ignoring others who on first impressions don't meet their perceptions of disability. Especially the 50% more children presenting with visual disruptions in the 21st Digital Century with symptoms of eye-strain and binocular vision stress debilitating reasonably fluent access to text excluding them from fully participating in learning and leaving education as functionally and digitally illiterate as they arrived. Nothing new as, "School Myopia" has been around ever since our Industrial Model Education system was launched nevertheless, in the 21st Digital Century eye-strain and/or binocular vision due to near indoor life-styles and close-up over exposure to sub-optimally calibrated display screen devices causing . https://lnkd.in/dJw4iSB History of School Myopia and potential visual functional visual difficulties when "binocular vision stress" has not be diagnosed and nor has convergence and accommodation remediated appropriate 3D vision rehabilitative treatment. https://lnkd.in/epcN9CGr https://lnkd.in/d_upyydp #PublicHealth #DigitalEyeHealth #DiversityAndExclusion #Visionloss #MyopiaManagement #AsthenopiaControl

It's true that many disabilities are imperceptible to others. Others are visible but not registered by most as a disability. Think: impaired vision corrected with eyeglasses. When we consider the difference in the way we interact with disabilities we *register* as disabilities and those we don't, it can help us understand the importance of the social model of disability. For context, the social model stands in contrast to the medical model, which historically told us that there is a standard sort of person in which everything functions "right," and then there are people with inherent impairments, because they are measured against that standard. They are just disabled, regardless of context. The social model of disability says people are often and largely disabled by their environments. Barriers are in place that limit mobility or pace, for instance, and we can remove those barriers or reinforce them. A wheelchair user who cannot get to a conference room on the second floor because the elevator is out of service is disabled by the staircase being the only access point to the second floor. I am a glasses-wearer, and have been effectively EN-abled by the investment our society has made in making sure that eyeglasses and contacts are readily available and accounted for. If my glasses were to break, I could likely acquire a new pair within a few hours anywhere I am likely to be. As a deeper example, this year I went kayaking in Spain and was handed a special lanyard to attach to my glasses so that I would not lose them—the kayaking company had thought about and invested in this proactively for everyone with glasses. Do I have impaired eyesight? Yes. Is that a disability? Yes. Does the way we have invested in our environment to remove barriers for those with impaired vision impact the ways I move in the world? Immeasurably. How might we look at, think about, or treat other disabilities if we made the investments to remove comparable barriers as a norm? How would the resulting lives disabled folks could live impact the way we see them vs. how we may perceive them now? Credit to Imani Barbarin for reminding me that glasses-wearers are disabled in a recent talk of hers. I recommend checking out her work. © Compassionate Accountability LLC

Evidence shows that many disabled people (including lawyers) avoid disclosing their disability at work due to fears of negative repercussions, leading them to forgo requesting reasonable adjustments. Much more needs to be done! #DisabilityDisclosure #WorkplaceInclusion #ReasonableAdjustments #LegallyDisabled #DisabilityAwareness #InclusiveWorkplaces #EqualityInLaw #DisabilityRights #WorkplaceDiversity 

The theme for National Disability Employment Awareness Month 2024 is “Access to Good Jobs for All.” Good jobs change lives, and all workers—including disabled workers—deserve the opportunity to prepare for, obtain and succeed in them. Learn more about how NDEAM works to commemorate the many contributions of people with disabilities to America’s workplaces and economy at dol.gov/NDEAM #NDEAM

It is imperative that we do more as a legal profession to provide inclusive workplaces where disabled people can thrive. July is #DisabilityPrideMonth. Disability Pride as a movement was created to highlight the positive and often ignored contributions of disabled people to society, in the face of social stigma. You can read more about our guidance on disability inclusion for firms here: https://bit.ly/3WJvHS1