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Living with disabilities certainly exposes life to a variety of challenges including the challenge of securing and keeping a job. But today fortunately for most people with disabilities, increased awareness and technological advancements have given a boost to their quality of life. Also societal and legislative changes have reduced the discriminations against disabled peopled especially at work by making it mandatory on employers to make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. For example one such disability can be visual impairment. We are using this example to explain how disabilities are viewed under Americans with disability act and how they must be taken care of at workplace. Visual disability or vision loss can have various forms and degrees and have many different causes. Each person with visual impairment or blindness is affected differently. Some people might have low vision since birth but most have vision problems because of a disease or a medical condition, an accident or an injury. Vision also gets impaired as people get older. Various levels of vision impairment may be found in employees and it is expected that employers would make all reasonable effort to provide a safe and supportive workplace for such individuals. Again, we must explain that this is just one form of disability. There can be variety of such issues most commonly physical...
By not allowing these individuals to work, we create a massive pool of unemployed people who are willing to work but are unable to find a job. To increase the load on federal resources due to rising unemployment, federal laws like ADA make it mandatory on all employers to accommodate individuals who are willing to work and are able to work with simple alterations in work environment. Statistics reveal that approximately 284 million people in the world today are visually impaired, 39 million people are blind and 245 have low vision (WHO, 2011).
These huge figures indicate why it is essential to create an environment that can help disabled people to live a normal life and earn their living independently. This explains why today there are such strict laws for the protection of disabled and for providing them better job opportunities. In the United States, the American Disability Act (ADA) is a federal law that strictly prohibits discrimination against disability by employers, if the applicant is qualified or any discrimination to a disabled employee because of his disability (ADA, 2008). In order to persuade employers to accommodate for disabled people various governments also provides funds and grants to employers to adopt their working place and work…
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ADA, (2008). Questions and Answers About Blindness and Vision Impairments in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act, The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, retrieved 28 March 2012 from http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/blindness.html
CDC, (n.d.). National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/dd/ddvi.htm.
NCHS, (2002). National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Dept. Of Health and Human Services, Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Adults: National Health Interview Survey, 2002, Vital and Health Statistics, Series 10, No. 222 (DHHS Publication No. 2004-1550).
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