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 …

…sensitivity training, reading manuals and meeting with disabilities-rights advocates." So in this world of political correctness, people can not even treat someone who has an extra bulge in one place or another as an equal. Laws are helping, but as Mrs. Sommer says, "The most significant barrier to [people with disabilities] is truly attitude." even though "Attitude would appear to be one of the easiest barriers to remove because it costs so little to change."