Gary Melton - Paradapt

"One of the things that I feel I’ve been very lucky, and the businesses that I have created, most of them have been geared towards people with mobility impairments. But I didn’t really start out in that direction. I was already somewhat in that field, and it was a natural development when I had my injury to go into that. But I think that one of the big things to keep in mind is that they don’t have to be limited to working in this field, to work with people with a mobility - or any other type of disability. And I think that a lot of people are steered in that direction.

I think that people should have the opportunity, and realize that the opportunity is there, to just proceed with any type of thing that they want to do, and not necessarily limit it towards that market. I think that what i could bring to the roundtable is my practical experience over the years of working with people with mobility impairments, and other types of disabilities, so that working in the workplace doesn’t have to be that expensive. We work with business owners to make them understand that there are a lot of practical things that can be done without following the ADA right to the letter of the law.