Ability for Hire

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 is being done to stop this raping of the human heart.
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