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Beth Sirull

Beth Sirull

President and CEO of the National Organization on Disability; social impact leader focused on disability employment and workplace inclusion.

Jul 21, 2026

26:13
So how, how can a manager or, or even a fellow employee, you know, even start the conversation to understand, you know, that this person better, um, you know, even, uh, when they don't even know?
26:26
You know, 25% of the population has, acknowledges that they have a disability.
26:31
You know, identifies as having a disability.
26:33
About 20% of the population is neurodivergent.
26:36
A lot of people who are neurodivergent do not identify as having a disability, so they're not gonna stand up and say, "I have a disability." Um, and at any given moment, like 25% of the workforce is struggling with a mental health issue.
26:51
And so, and now there's a lot of correlation so that people who are neurodivergent will also have a higher rate of occurrence of mental health challenges, um, as do people with, with many other disabilities.
27:03
So it's not like you can add those numbers up.

7 MINS LATER

34:21
I love that.

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