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10th October 2024
What is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM)?
Learn about what NDEAM is and how you and others can celebrate it this month.
This October, we are celebrating National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM)! According to the New York Education Department, Congress recognized the first week of October as National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week in 1945. Later, in 1962, the word physically was removed from the name to include people with all types of disabilities. 1988, the name was changed again to NDEAM and became a month...