. >> good afternoon, my name is kevin miller a partner associate with swords of plow shares. today i will cover social barriers for veterans for disability rating as being the conduit not necessarily identifying being a disabled person and cover disabilities, post traumatic stress and tbi and recommendation for hiring managers and what they should focus on in the workplace. to go over the compensation process, i will go over and use my first person narrative. like chris, i'm also an iraq veteran and deployed and in infantry myself. i did not identify with being disabled and even though i do hold that rating. i'm rated for post traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury and musculo injury throughout my body and something the va hasn't currently given me a rating for. i went in 2006. only 60 percent access va care. i went in and told the doctors, these were my issues from my time in service and they basically went on to verify whether they were legitimate or not after going through about a process of a year with multiple appointments and doctors, i received my first rating and af

presentation by kevin c miller, strategic partnership associate. swords to plow shares. agenda item no. 10, ceremonial item in honor of derek zarda. agenda item no. 11. report from the disability disaster preparedness committee. agenda item no. 12. public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. agenda item no. 13, correspondence agenda item no. 14, councilmember comments and announcements. item 15, adjourn. >> thank you. today as we continue the discussion with people on disabilities and employment to focus on bettering employment on disabilities it's important how to keep in mind how the two are connected. veterans returning from vietnam war had acquired disabilities. the anti-kwar movement gave rise to the disability rights movement in the 70s and veterans disabilities often crossed the threshold between the two communities and veterans got lost. soldiers returning from the recent conflicts, many of them with visible disabilities remind us that the connection is there and veterans with disabilities are still members of the disabilit