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Vol. 86, No. 3, March 2006, pp. 458-459
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Able! How One Company's Disabled Workforce Became the Key to Extraordinary Success


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Wurst NH. Dallas, TX 75206, Benbella Books, 2005, paperback, 199 pp, ISBN: 1-932100-44-X, $16.95.

Able! is a thought-provoking book that chronicles a free-spirited entrepreneur's long journey through triumphs, pitfalls, initial and ongoing challenges, and various frustrating bureaucratic mazes associated with hiring people with a disability. It describes how Habitat International, a "company of positive distractions," became a role model for corporations across the United States. Able! shares heartwarming individual success stories of workers who refused to be stereotyped, tackles real-life issues that surround hiring an individual with a disability, provides advice and concrete tips for entrepreneurs wanting to set up a hiring program for people with disabilities, and encourages readers to reflect on their own personal level of comfort, preconceived ideas, and stereotypical misconceptions about people with a disability.

Able! is a "must-have" for any physical therapist who cares for people with disabilities, educators who want to expose students to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Theresa J Kraemer

Arizona School of Health Sciences
Mesa, AZ


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