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Hear! Hear! rgds John (this is not meant to discrimminate against people who are hearing impaired.) Laurence Bathurst wrote: > > Hi all > > Well if your gonna bite that bullet Mairian, whose gonna bite this one? > > Who controls the agenda for people with cognitive impairment? (is that ok > to use?) I mean people who have intellectual/ developmetal disabilities and > people who have aquired a brain injury for instance? > > Is there any chance of having universal knowledge, functional ability and > technology accessible and available to all people so that they can compete > equally for jobs and other life opportunities? > > If we can ask a workplace to provide physical access can we also ask a > workplace to provide maybe a keyboard template and artificial intelligence? > I realise an employer does not have to employ someone who doesn't have the > ability to do the job but if a person with quadraplegia's physical access > was impeded by stairs then one of the requirements (or skills) in order to > do the job, it might be said, would be to walk, crawl,or be carried up the > stairs to one's office. Thank goodness we now have laws which (attempt to) > address these access issues. > > So what skills should a person with an intellectual disability be expected > to have in order to do a job?..I mean what is a reasonable accessibility > adjustment? How do we make this list accessible to people with a cognitive > imapirment for instance? > > At 02:51 PM 6/30/99 +0100, you wrote: > >OK - I'm going to 'bite the bullet' as they say and play Devil's Advocate. > >Of course I fully accept that a lot of the time we get into the 'us' and > >'them' scenario. I also know and understand the history of the creation of > >such a scenario and who usually ends up on top controlling the agenda! This > >knowledge teaches me that opportunities for disabled people in employment > >are unequal, often because institutionalised discrimination has prevented > >many of us from getting equal qualifications and equal experience, and so > >we start out on an unequal footing. However, our knowledge, skills and > >experience are often very considerable, just not 'approved' in official > >certificates, CVs, and biased job criteria, and would in many cases save a > >lot of trouble and money if put to good use. > With best regards > > Laurence Bathurst > University of Sydney > School of Occupation and Leisure Sciences > Faculty of Health Sciences > East Street (P.O. Box 170) > Lidcombe NSW 1825 > Australia > > Ph+ 61 2 9351 9509 > Fax+ 61 2 9351 9166 > E-mail [log in to unmask] > > Note: This is the e-mail address for my home as well > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > There is not one shred of evidence that supports the notion that life is > serious. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%