During National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), we celebrate the value workers with disabilities add to our workplaces. More than that, we use the month of October as an opportunity to raise awareness around equitable workplace practices — and, hopefully, encourage workplaces to strengthen their commitment to being disability allies. 

Though nearly 1 billion people worldwide have a disability, TV and movie characters who realistically depict a disability in the media are few and far between. Read on to see a few positive examples of characters with disabilities on both the big and small screen!

Learn more about disability rights and resources, employee expectations and signs of wrongful termination due to a disability.

Federal law protects our rights in day-to-day life, and this extends to people with disabilities. True disability equality relies on protections that are already in place.