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Employers should be and are gradually being educated to the idea of employing handicapped persons. At present the problem confronting the handicapped man is not his inability to perform work, but difficulty in obtaining the job. Several useful experiments have been made which seem to disprove the common objection of employers.

One objection commonly heard is that the disabled man is more apt to be injured while on the job. So far there has been no proof that casualties among the disabled are more frequent than among the able bodied workers. Another objection is that handicapped workers cannot stand the pace of modern industry. This is fairly well refuted by the fact that disabled workers average a longer time on the job than government reports show for the average worker. It is perfectly true that any disabled man cannot successfully handle any type of job, but, when given a job that takes into consideration his particular disability, it can safely be said that his employment is as economically sound as that of any other man.

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