These 12 profiles show the successes of workers with various handicaps who can serve as role models for people with disabilities and personalize knowledge for the non-disabled. Each profile begins with a brief remark by the individual on barriers and continues with his or her perspective on the work world and a discussion of his or her experiences and the set of barriers that needed to be broken. The individuals profiled are a dancer who is deaf, a counsellor at law with paraparisis, a printer with epilepsy, a student and office worker who has cerebral palsy, an auditor confined to a wheelchair with osteogenesis imperfecta, a boutique manager with epilepsy, a computer engineer who is blind, a social worker who is a paraplegic, a research neurochemist who is deaf, an actor/lecturer on crutches who was disabled by polio, a one-handed maintenance mechanic, and a teacher in a wheelchair. Both males and females are represented. A glossary of terms related to disabilities is appended. (YLB)