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Paralympic Military — Sport as Rehabilitation

Who am I now? What do I do with my life? How do I become employed? How do I provide for my family? What will they think of me?

A veteran of the Gulf War and former Olympic and Paralympic athlete, John Register saw those questions flash across the faces of soldiers as he spoke at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) in San Antonio, Texas. And he knew them all too well. He’d asked the same things himself 11 years ago while waiting for a prosthesis to be put on his left leg. BAMC is the place for military rehabilitation, he’d told himself, but the reassurances didn’t make his situation any easier.

Standing before a group of soldiers, all of whom had recently been injured or had undergone amputations because of combat, Register had a mission: to acknowledge any questions they may have about life after injury, and to promote sport as an answer. .More
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PepsiCo — Effervescent Corporate Culture

During the recent Super Bowl, millions of viewers caught a Pepsi commercial, one that some say represents an historic first. The unusual ad featured a silent, 60-second joke: Two guys drive to their friend Bob’s house to watch the big game. Once they get to his street, neither remembers his address. So they sit in the car arguing in sign language until one of them gets a clever idea and lays on the horn. One by one, the houses light up-except for Bob’s.More
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Connecticut Dept. of Labor — Gift of Opportunity

Joe Stromondo was born with dwarfism. But dwarfism doesn’t define who he is; it is simply the name of his disability. It doesn’t take more than a five-minute conversation with the 24-year-old Stromondo, who works full time as a career advisor at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, to realize how bright and energetic he is. Upon graduating from Trinity with a BA in philosophy two years ago, Stromondo had hoped to pursue a PhD in bioethics, with a specific focus in disability bioethics. He applied for entry to nine different PhD programs, only to be rejected by all of them. Never one to be easily discouraged, Stromondo switched his emphasis More
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Pathways to Work

Steve Tamburro, co-chair of the association of persons with disabilities at the Raytheon Company helped plan a recent Creating Pathways to Work retreat. The daylong strategic-visioning event brought together key representatives of federal and state government, educators, members of the business community and advocates for people with disabilities, along with Rhode Island Congressman Jim Langevin, the first quadriplegic elected to Congress. They huddled to address the barriers and challenges people with disabilities face when trying to enter the workforce More
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Behind the Scenes at Walgreens

When you stop by Walgreens to pick up a prescription or a few toiletry items, you don’t see what’s going on beyond the shelves, beyond the brick and mortar. What you don’t see is that the corporation has been busy at work creating distribution centers that employ impressive numbers of people with disabilities More
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