physical or mental disabilities. The law also requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees who need them because of their disabilities‚ unless doing so would cause undue hardship. EEOC is proud to be a leader in opening doors for people with disabilities. To honor the ADA’s 25th anniversary‚ we have created this web page to provide helpful information about disability rights and responsibilities and how EEOC is helping people with disabilities in the workplace
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intended major‚ including your readiness to succeed in your upper-division courses once you enroll at the university. Growing up‚ I always struggled to focus‚ read‚ and maintain good grades. As an adult‚ I recently got diagnosed with a learning disability at age 32 in November 2016. This discovery has helped me understand how to place myself in the best position to succeed in my academia. The resources that I am currently utilizing to help me succeed in my upper-division courses are Kurzweil 3000
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The term disability is often used to describe a physical or mental challenge. This could be a bump in life that can be managed or a mountain that creates serious changes and loss. Either way‚ this term should not be used to describe a person as weaker or lesser than anyone else! Every person has a purpose‚ special uniqueness and value‚ no matter what hurdles they may face. Political Correctness is The avoidance‚ often considered as taken to extremes‚ of forms of expression or action that are perceived
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without offering proper assistance‚ education could be a difficult process for him. Even though Ryan’s visual impairment is not necessarily considered as a learning disability because as the textbook stated: “to be classified as a learning disability‚ the learning problem is not primarily the result of visual‚ hearing‚ or motor disabilities” (Santrock‚ 2011)‚ it is still as important for him to receive support in school for him to become a responsible and independent adult. As an educator‚ it is important
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intellectual disabilities significant limitations in both intellectual functioning (IQ below 75) and adaptive behavior (conceptual‚ social‚ and practical adaptive skills) Autism developmental disability that significantly affects verbal and nonverbal communication‚ social interaction‚ and educational performance multiple disabilities the combination of impairments which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education program solely for
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People with disabilities are significantly overrepresented in the nation’s prisons and jails today. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that fully 1 in 5 prison inmates have a serious mental illness (Vallas‚ 2016). As a result of this increase in population‚ these facilities are inadequately funded and staffed to provide mental health treatment to prisoners who are sentenced as a result of their mental illnesses (Gilna‚ 2016). North Carolina is one state that is addressing this issue. In 2014
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horrible thing. Many would think it wrong for a parent to not want to give their child the gift of sight. If I had a child that was deaf‚ I would do everything in my power to help them get their hearing. If the technology was there to fix this disability‚ why wouldn ’t anyone want their child to have it? "840 babies are born with a permanent hearing loss every year."(NDCS of UK). This is a horrible number to hear‚ that so many children will never be able to hear. If there was any technology able
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According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA‚ 2006) one of the principal work-related causes of pain and disabilities in the place of work are musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Musculoskeletal disorders are among the most common medical problems in the U.S. as they affect 7% of the American population according to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH‚ 1997). These MSDs include problems such as lower back pain‚ joint injuries and strain on nerves
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Medical Model of Disability The medical model of disability is one that is primarily concerned with the justification of disability. It sees disability purely as a problem of the individual‚ without any discrimination between the impairment faced and the disability itself. “Any economic or social deprivation encountered by disabled people was located within the individual and their impairment.” (Swain et al.‚ 2003) To put it simply‚ a disabled person is seen as faulty and in need of fixing or curing
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Abilities of People With Disabilities Chris Moore Assumption: A person with mental retardation cannot be trained to perform a job as well as an employee without a disability. Fact: Over two thirds of Pizza Hut employees have mental retardation. The average turnover rate (the rate at which workers quit) of these employees is a modest twenty percent compared to a one hundred and fifty percent turnover of employees without disabilities. It is this kind of thinking that limits the ability of people
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