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New NIOSH Web Page Focuses on Workers with Developmental Disabilities

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NIOSH has created a topic page on its Web site that contains links to research the agency and others has conducted on the safety and health of workers with developmental disabilities. The page also contains links to organizations that are working to promote safer working conditions for all workers, including those with disabilities.

Approximately 4.5 million individuals in the United States have developmental disabilities such as mental retardation, autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, and epilepsy, NIOSH says. An estimated 30 percent of working-age adults in this population are employed, either in facility-based settings ("sheltered workshops") or in the conventional labor market. The number of those employed has increased steadily since the 1990s, and this growth is expected to continue for the foreseeable future.

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