One billion people worldwide are living with a disability, and too many of them are left unemployed or feeling like they need to hide their conditions due to discriminatory hiring practices, says social innovator and TED Fellow Ryan Gersava. With a focus on healing and disclosure, he created an online school to provide people like him with the technical skills and employment aid they need to thrive. Now he’s calling for every company to initiate efforts to welcome and support those with disabilities, creating a future of work that leaves no one behind.
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Srv singh
December 21, 2022 at 12:02 pm
First comment
CHRIS MOHLALA
December 21, 2022 at 12:04 pm
Second comment
Nu Anteek Gaming
December 21, 2022 at 12:04 pm
Interesting
Dennis Bitare Francisco
December 21, 2022 at 12:06 pm
This is inspiring ❤❤❤
ジャストミズ
December 21, 2022 at 12:08 pm
I’m a person…
LCifer Morning Star
December 21, 2022 at 12:13 pm
ALL emotional healing is Self Healing.
Job Question solve
December 21, 2022 at 12:27 pm
Great inspired speech
𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒏 💘🫀
December 21, 2022 at 12:31 pm
secondery
Deepak S
December 21, 2022 at 12:44 pm
Some heartless Conservative is just itching to call this “woke”.
happy daze 7
December 21, 2022 at 1:42 pm
I’m conservative and disabled…😲🤔. Maybe I just believe in free speech, fiscal constraint and see the utter inefficiency of socialized medicine in lived reality. Because in my very Liberal country of Canada they are now euthanizing disabled people, calling it mercy, but really it’s to save money. That is literal eugenics and genocide. And more people are becoming disabled through prolonged lack of sufficient care. Don’t mistake being Liberal with being virtuous or right. Please don’t politicize disability it does nothing to help disabled people at all to use us as your soap box.
Teodor Petrache
December 21, 2022 at 7:43 pm
Woke!
Christine Harrison
December 21, 2022 at 12:59 pm
I truly hope this goes world wide I have 4 children with disabilities and a program like this would give them a brighter future ❤ beyond cart pushers and greeter we need to find there strength and go with that.
happy daze 7
December 21, 2022 at 1:36 pm
It would be great, so long as its free market, but lets not let us be used to usher in socialism under this guise. With population decline and technology we can make this more a reality. Bur let just make sure we’re not being politicized in the process.
Dimitros
December 21, 2022 at 2:35 pm
@happy daze 7
…what?
Unscented Napalm
December 22, 2022 at 10:24 am
Serious question: why didn’t you stop at 1 or 2 when it’s clearly genetic?
Christine Harrison
December 22, 2022 at 11:21 am
It didn’t show up until they were a little older and God blessed me with them I wouldn’t trade any of them just because they are not what Society thinks perfect is I think they are perfect yes they are going to have a harder time at some things in this world but the meek will inherit the earth.
Unscented Napalm
December 22, 2022 at 7:50 pm
@Christine Harrison ugh, religion. The biggest confidence trick in history.
meissheiten
December 21, 2022 at 1:05 pm
Truely inspiring what Ryan Gersava does with his organization @virtualahan6390
happy daze 7
December 21, 2022 at 1:28 pm
Being disabled isn’t an identity. It’s a material reality because we’re mortal and one day we all age and become disabled.
This was a good video.
Meanwhile in Canada the government is euthanizing disabled Canadians. It is now a leading cause of death. It’s eugenics and genocide. This is supposedly progressive liberalism.
Dimitros
December 21, 2022 at 2:35 pm
Ι am not what you mean in this comment.
Anyway, being disabled is an identity as well, because you are judged for it and people treat you differently because of it. Many times unfairly so
Feminine Britaney Burnett
December 21, 2022 at 1:37 pm
❤❤❤❤
vincent anguoni
December 21, 2022 at 2:38 pm
Our local supermarket in Maine USA employs severely mentally challenged persons as baggers! They do great and are very happy working! Just sayin’
marlousv
December 21, 2022 at 2:40 pm
Hundreds of thousands are unemployed. I am one of them.
Very good brain, very disabled body. I get 75% of minimum wage to life from. It’s enough to pay my fixed costs. Not enough for food. I wish our government was understanding more, and would help us in a positive way.
Nargis
December 21, 2022 at 3:06 pm
🥰
Jacob Leyva
December 21, 2022 at 3:25 pm
With incredible focus and will anything is possible. I am on the tail end of healing myself from some pretty bad body issues ive dealt with since childhood im 25 now. Dont stop youll get better
Tamar Komla
December 21, 2022 at 6:44 pm
Yay for you at 1:16!! Will try to follow your career now ❤️
Kendall Robinson
December 21, 2022 at 6:56 pm
Small disabilities can mean great advantages we don’t live in a box
BBMcDee
December 21, 2022 at 11:13 pm
I wish the idea of inclusion wasn’t seen as so innovative that it needed a TED talk. I applaud this man for finding a way to employ PWD in a society that still holds such huge biases, but I look forward to the day when we don’t need to be faceless to be employed.
I am a person with disability and I *do* have a part time job in a rewarding professional role. But that is in a large company with more entrenched anti-discrimination practices. The small business sector never looks at me twice unless I come with some sort of subsidy — because all they see is ‘risk’.
If the pandemic taught us anything, it’s that flexibility can be implemented at the drop of a hat if the economic benefit is significant. And how is it not significant to the economy as a whole if more people are gainfully employed?
EnchantedImaginationASMR
December 22, 2022 at 1:39 am
I was hired and fired the day before I was supposed to start, because she found out I had bipolar disorder.
None of your Damn Business
December 22, 2022 at 7:49 am
*Those people usually have a job in the government 🤪*
Luân Bùi
December 22, 2022 at 12:21 pm
god blessed all <3
katherandefy
December 22, 2022 at 1:28 pm
So many people think disability means useless. Lots of fearful thinking. Too much categorizing not enough knowledge or understanding of the person and the value in difference.
Jaco Flez
December 22, 2022 at 4:40 pm
This guy is so funny ,loved the stand up comedy performaed at this TED talk
Human driver 5280
December 23, 2022 at 2:29 am
Robots aka Cobots will make employment easier for the disabled.
막지
December 27, 2022 at 2:31 am
안뇽.! 하세욤
채민 이
December 27, 2022 at 5:19 am
I am surprised that disability can affect in employment. I think our society should be more and more developed, and disabled people shouldn’t be discriminated. If we try to eliminate discrimination against disabled people, they will live in better society. I am very inspired by this video.
jdkskeb
December 27, 2022 at 10:22 am
I think so, too. I think getting rid of this prejudice in our society is a step toward creating a better society.
陈JAY
December 27, 2022 at 3:25 pm
Great