Modern rehabilitation techniques and accessibility accommodations mean well-trained, capable people with disabilities enter the workplace environment every day. While in the workplace, disabled people want equal treatment rather than special treatment.

1. Relax. People with disabilities incorporate all the human characteristics you expect to see in an employee.
2. See the person rather than the disability.
3. Understand that a disabled person has a legal right to equal access to employment.
4. Treat the person as you would any other worker - as a responsible adult completing employer-assigned tasks.
5. Respect a disabled person's devices such as a wheelchair, cane, or text telephone.
6. Touch a hearing-impaired person lightly on the arm or shoulder to attract his or her attention.
7. Identify yourself and others who are present when meeting a blind person.
8. Involve the disabled person in any effort to make the workplace more accessible.
9. Make offers of help in the same context as an offer of help to any other worker.
10. Allow a disabled person to make his or her own decision concerning his or her ability to do a task.
11. Focus criticism on job performance rather than a person's disability.