Americans With Disabilities

In severe economic conditions, with high levels of unemployment in the general population, disabled persons find it difficult to get a job. Their education and training does not suit the job market trends. They are usually educated (trained) for the professions that are no longer in demand, and in most cases are often not computer illiterate, which makes it extremely difficult for them to find employment. (Ergovic, Jela. Training for Independent Work and Employment of Disabled People (2010)). While being educated is often seen as a path to economic and social stability, for the disabled population this is paradoxical. Not only are they not able to find and keep gainful employment, but it is also a challenge based on their area of study.

They were in some form of tragic accident that caused them to be disabled, they may have become ill and the condition cause a form of disability, they Until the twentieth century, when civil rights legislators started focusing on the person with disability, disabled persons were always confined to asylums, homeless shelters and varying institutions. The disabled were not allowed to be a part of the public out of fear of ‘offending’ those citizens who were not disabled. They were labeled impotent/useless and deemed unable to work. There were classified of unworthy poor and were used as entertainment in circuses or and

al., 2001) However the 1940’s and 50’s saw dramatic change for the disable community as World War II disabled veterans lobbied for aid and vocational training from the government. The 1960 birthed the civil rights movement and this continued with the passing of the 1972 Rehabilitation Act that was pass in 1973 that protected the disabled community. The changes continued in housing and accessibility and education and federal employment, it was the Americans With Disability Act (ADA) of 1990 that opened up more opportunities for the disabled community. It was mandated that public places had to be accessible to the disabled, employees had to make their offices accessible for the disabled; all round total inclusion of the disabled community into the