National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) 2025
PCC celebrates the 80th anniversary of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). This event happens every year to recognize the important contributions people with disabilities make in the American workforce.
History of NDEAM
NDEAM started in 1945 as a weeklong event to honor people with physical disabilities. In 1988, Congress officially named it National Disability Employment Awareness Month and expanded it to include people with all types of disabilities, including mental health conditions and other disabilities that aren’t always easy to see. In 2001, the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) was created to lead NDEAM.
NDEAM@PCC 2025 Professional Development Checklist
We’ve compiled a list of 16 activities that you can complete throughout NDEAM, which can be completed in any order. To track your own progress you can save a copy of this checklist by selecting File and then Make a Copy.
Celebrate NDEAM 2025 by attending an event or by visiting our online resource and professional development highlights
Join the Disability Cultural Alliance for a screening of Crip Camp: a disability revolution on October 28 at 4pm
Follow the journey of a group of disabled young people into adulthood, activism, and the birth of the disability rights movement
October 28 at 4pm, at PCC Cascade Campus in the Moriarty Auditorium. Captioning and ASL interpreters provided.
This event is free. You do not need to register or buy tickets.
Free Staff & Faculty ASL Class – All skill levels, beginner friendly 1pm to 2pm: November 21 & December 19
Join us this Fall on the 3rd Friday of each month for a free, beginner friendly American Sign Language class, taught on Zoom. Casuals and student staff members are also welcome!
Taught by PCC ASL Faculty member, Rosemary DiSiervi. Come to one class or join all three, as you’re available.
- Join the ASL class on Zoom
- Meeting ID: 931 2887 0589
- ASL class flyer
Asynchronous trainings
There are several accessibility training opportunities in Workday Learning for faculty and staff to take for professional development.
- Accessibility and Universal Design
- Accessible Word Documents
- Accessible Presentation Slides
- Accessible PDFs
- Universal Design in the Workplace. Presented by Jennifer Gossett.
- Have you Grackled today? Presented by Kaela Parks.
Resources and guides
- Accessible building features map
- Accessible Education and Disability Resources handouts
- Inclusive event planning checklist
- Creating accessible content
- Job accommodation network
- Accessible wayfinding at PCC
- AEDR apps we like Spaces page (requires logging in to MyPCC)
- Google Workspace user guide to accessibility
- Microsoft accessibility
Subscribe to receive email updates
If you want to receive information about events and opportunities related to disability and accessibility at PCC, you can subscribe to disability-group@pcc.edu directly, or get added to the list.