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An 11 page overview of the history and provisions of this 1990 Act. The ADA has resulted in a tremendous improvement in regard to the lives of the disabled. There are, however, certain facts which we must acknowledge. These include reports on continued discrimination as well as concerns that the Act results in an unfair cost for employers and the requirement that they hire and retain employees who are inappropriate for meeting the demands of a particular job. This paper addresses each of these concerns to conclude that the advantages of the ADA outweigh any potential disadvantages. Includes a one-page letter to a Senator complimenting him on his role in implementing the ADA and encouraging him to turn legislative attention to educational partitioning in the educational arena which too often sets the stage for discrimination in the workplace. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Introduction First enacted on July 26, 1990, the Americans With Disabilities Act
(ADA) was intended to prevent the discrimination by private and government employers alike against a qualified individual either in terms of application procedures, hiring, firing, advancement, or any other aspect
of the employment arrangement (Lesko, 1994). In effect, the ADA is a civil rights bill for the disabled (Neary, 2000). One of the ADAs legislative sponsors, Senator Tom
Harkin from Iowa, clarifies that the Act is intended to protect the rights not just of our stereotypical image of the disabled, someone confined to a wheelchair, but also the
blind, the deaf, the cognitively impaired and a diversity of other types of disabilities (Neary, 2000). The ADA has resulted in
a tremendous improvement in regard to the lives of the disabled. There are, however, certain facts which we must acknowledge. In a 2000 Internet Poll on a web
site for the disabled, for example, one in four respondents reported that they had been the target of discrimination (Lore, 2000). Unfortunately, the greatest hurdle we have to
face in regard to overcoming barriers in the workplace is the hurdle of peoples attitudes towards the disabled. Too often the
disabled are stereotyped and this stereotyping can have negative impacts even under the best of intentions. Consider a situation involving blind individuals, for example. Too many among the
general public assume that the provision of Braille signs is adequate in itself in meeting the needs of the blind. In reality, many visually impaired individuals cannot read Braille.
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