g participants how to interact appropriately with people who are blind or visually impaired. The exercise involves several steps. First, participants in the program are asked to read two passages that described conflicting attitudes toward people with disabilities. Second, participants are asked to grade themselves and others on their attitudes and discuss the results.
Participants then break into pairs and take turns walking around the room with their blindfolded partner. Following this, they then discuss how they felt in both roles. In his analyses of training programs using such techniques, King (1993) stated that findings support the notion that such training helps employees understand their own and others' attitudes, and that this in turn allows them to develop positive working relationships with disabled coworkers.
What the foregoing review of attitudinal studies toward the disabled in the workplace show is that despite efforts to remediate discrimination of disabled people in the workplace, negative attitudes still remain, some of them leading to costly
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