Welcome

This toolkit provides curated information and essential resources about how (and why!) small businesses can successfully hire and retain employees with disabilities. You’ll find easy-to-understand, practical advice, along with expert guidance on following Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Instead of searching the web for whatever article may appear first, we hope you’ll come back here often to explore the eight tools in this toolkit.

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Tools

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Business Case

How disability inclusion benefits a business

  1. Playbook iconPlaybook
  2. Situation Room iconSituation Room
  3. What to Do iconWhat to Do
  4. Deeper Dive iconDeeper Dive
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Two carpenters look over a plan.

What Is Disability?

Disability covers many conditions, both visible and invisible

  1. Playbook iconPlaybook
  2. Situation Room iconSituation Room
  3. What to Do iconWhat to Do
  4. Deeper Dive iconDeeper Dive
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A woman points at a graph and explains.

Productivity

Getting the work done

  1. Playbook iconPlaybook
  2. Situation Room iconSituation Room
  3. What to Do iconWhat to Do
  4. Deeper Dive iconDeeper Dive
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A man with a prosthetic leg talks with two other men in a warehouse.

Inclusion

Why workplace inclusion matters

  1. Playbook iconPlaybook
  2. Situation Room iconSituation Room
  3. What to Do iconWhat to Do
  4. Deeper Dive iconDeeper Dive
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Young adult colleagues talk sitting at a table in an office.

The ADA

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in a small business

  1. Playbook iconPlaybook
  2. Situation Room iconSituation Room
  3. What to Do iconWhat to Do
  4. Deeper Dive iconDeeper Dive
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Two businesspeople chatting beside an open laptop in an office.

Hiring

Recruiting and hiring people with disabilities

  1. Playbook iconPlaybook
  2. Situation Room iconSituation Room
  3. What to Do iconWhat to Do
  4. Deeper Dive iconDeeper Dive
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A group of office workers sit at computers in a modern open plan office

Accommodations

A simple step-by-step process

  1. Playbook iconPlaybook
  2. Situation Room iconSituation Room
  3. What to Do iconWhat to Do
  4. Deeper Dive iconDeeper Dive
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Woman cashier in mask and gloves working at the register

Coronavirus

Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic

  1. Playbook iconPlaybook