{"id":7552,"date":"2025-03-28T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disabilityconnect.co.za\/?p=7552"},"modified":"2025-03-28T12:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T10:00:26","slug":"watch-acceptance-of-disability-in-the-workplace-a-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/watch-acceptance-of-disability-in-the-workplace-a-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8211; Acceptance of disability in the workplace a challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Disability Connect Work Enabled speaks to Gareth Dudgeon who lost mobility in his left arm and leg from a brain injury as a result of an accident in 2002. Gareth studied human movement science but is now a commercial property broker in sales and leasing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite his disability, Gareth describes himself as a health and fitness junkie with a passion for golf and says acceptance of disabilities in the workplace is an issue in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Disability Connect Work Enabled - Gareth Dudgeon\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VXbzkL1RGsk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disability Connect Work Enabled speaks to Gareth Dudgeon who lost mobility in his left arm and leg from a brain injury as a result of an accident in 2002. Gareth studied human movement science but is now a commercial property broker in sales and leasing. Despite his disability, Gareth describes himself as a health and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[152,60],"tags":[39,41,234,172],"class_list":["post-7552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-workplace","category-thought-leadership-in-the-workplace","tag-disability","tag-disability-connect","tag-disability-in-the-workplace","tag-disability-inclusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}