Good point, I honestly didn't think of peer counsellors. Other areas would be
voc. rehab., or rehabilitation engineering.
I'm really awfully tired today as I woke up at 4 am and couldn't get back to
sleep. Will go home very soon and go to bed early tonight.
Kat
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 14:22:11 -0700 Bill Hyatt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I thought of this becuase many years ago I used to work at a center for
independent living and we had position open for a peer counselor for people
with disabilities. Someone applied who did not have a disability and when
they weren't hired they threatened to sue for discrimination. I also wonder if
for certain jobs working with people with disabilities having a disability
wouldn't give you an edge. If you have tow people with equal backgrounds and
one has a disability and one doesn't I would lean towards the one with a
disability. That doesn't automaticly say the person with a disability will
always be best because some people with disabilities really haven't dealt with
them.
Kathy Salkin wrote:I can't think of any, really, unless you are talking of
something that focuses
on one of the senses, such as taste or smell, which a blind person might be
better at without visual distractions. Can you think of any?
Kat (who's struggling with database issues and can't think straight)
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 14:00:18 -0700 Bill Hyatt wrote:
Here is an interesting question for all of you. Do youu think thee would ever
be sa job for which a person with a disability was the more logical choice
because of their disability?
Kathy Salkin wrote:Wow...this actually raises some interesting,and IMHO,
valid points.
First of all, the author's right in saying the US Supreme Court's decision in
the worker's comp case is going to require Talmudic interpretation of the ADA
legislation. They have created a legal landmine that will be in the courts
for years.
I agree with this:
'The ADA, of course, does not even aspire to total leveling. Differences in
ability only matter to the law if the ability of one person in the comparison
falls below a threshold into territory labeled "disability." And the law does
exempt disabilities from its protections when they are "job related." But the
line between ability and disability is inherently arbitrary, and the effort to
protect disabled people from job discrimination without forcing employers to
hire less-qualified candidates is inherently self-contradictory.'
There are too many cases in which a person is hired only on the basis of his
disability rather than his or her ability, and that detracts from the overall
purpose of the ADA.
I know some will get mad at me for saying this, but I would far rather listen
to a AB pianist play Mozart Sonata in A perfectly than a disabled person
bumble through it. People should be judged on ability first, and disability
second, not the other way round.
Kat
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 12:47:38 EDT "BG Greer, PhD"
wrote:
The List members need to read the following:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5719-2002Jun30.html
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