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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...

A Day in the Life: ’23 Soon-To-Be Graduate Oluwatomini ‘Tomini’ Ola advises, “You are the driver of your life.”

Tomi describes her education being difficult because of how she was two years younger than the average age of students in the grade when she started school here in the U.S. Compared to Nigeria, where she describes education to be more prescriptive, math was easier to comprehend because of tutors. Here in the states, she was able to understand and put into use her learning style as a visual learner and application of learned materials. Schooling in the U.S. provided a more comfortable environment
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