From the Kansas City Star, for National Disability Awareness Month, an article about people with cognitive disabilities who have been able to find work. Among those featured is a man with Down syndome and autism who owns a kettle corn business called Poppin Joe’s.

Many other would-be workers with disabilities, particularly those with mental disabilities, are on waiting lists for job-finding assistance or are stuck in frustrating searches for work they can do.

… Employment barriers for people with disabilities are many. They can be physical, mental or emotional.

Barriers exist because of their inability to perform tasks or because a workplace environment isn’t suited to them or because transportation isn’t available.

Other barriers are financial, the result of government and business budgets that make it hard to access support services that would allow the work to be done.

Many barriers are attitudinal, born of discomfort or faulty assumptions about what people with disabilities can or can’t do.

The article includes some helpful web links and tips.

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