Perspective

Differently Abled Is a Strength

By Rhonda Bettis, Founder & CEO

Two students working over their notes at a shared table

I use the words differently abled on purpose.

A young adult who is autistic, or who has ADHD or dyslexia, thinks, learns and works in a different way. Different is a description. It carries no judgment about what that person can contribute.

The job market has not caught up. In 2025, 22.8% of people with a disability were employed. For people without one, the figure was 65.2%. That distance has little to do with ability. It comes from interviews built to reward small talk, job descriptions that ask for everything, and workplaces that offer one way to do the work.

I spent 35 years leading large teams in financial services. The strongest teams I saw were never made up of people who all thought alike. They had the person who caught the error everyone else missed, the person who could stay with a hard problem for hours, the person who asked the question nobody wanted to ask.

At Prime Village™ we shape the training around the person. We adjust the pace, the setting and the way we teach, and we match each Villager with an employer who understands what they bring.

Employers who partner with us gain trained, certified people who want to work. That is good business, and it is the right thing to do.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2025.

Back to News & Events