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Thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us today. It is greatly appreciated.
I have a health care background myself, albeit I'm a pediatric orthopedic surgeon, so I've had a number of patients who have had associated issues, whether on the mental health side, or lacking a faculty, or sight, or they may have been deaf or other things like that.
The one thing that I've encountered among the young people with whom I've worked in the past with respect to employment are those first steps. What are those first things they should be doing or they should be asking their employer as they try to enter the workplace? It is a huge first step. For the children from my practice who have cerebral palsy, many of them are full-time wheelchair users. They don't even know what to ask.
I want to get your perspective on those first steps, those first questions they should be asking and the things we should be focusing on initially, so that they get their foot in the door, because it is even more challenging for them frequently than it is for able-bodied young students who are looking for their first jobs, and even they sometimes have anxiety about taking those first steps.
What are your thoughts? As a young person entering the workplace, what are those first questions they should be asking, and what should their first expectations of employers be so that we can better educate employers about these young people?