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Essay Archive - Abilities of People With Disabilities
Abilities of People With Disabilities
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 E....
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