Wikipedia on the:
Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990
Groups that worked to pass the ADA
[NOTE: many of the below Wiki links lead to currently non-existent pages.]
- AIDS Action Council
- AIDS National InterFaith Network
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Foundation for the Blind
- Americans Disabled for Accessible Public Transit (ADAPT)
- Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Handicapped
- Association for Retarded Citizens
- Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities
- Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
- Dole Foundation
- Easter Seals
- Eastern Paralyzed Veterans of America
- Epilepsy Foundation of America
- Human Rights Campaign Fund
- Institution for Rehabilitation and Research
- Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
- Legal Action Center
- Mental Health Law Project
- National Association of the Deaf
- National Association of Developmental Disabilities Councils
- National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems
- National Center for Law and the Deaf
- National Council of Independent Living
- National Council on Disability
- National Disability Action Center
- National Organization Responding to AIDS
- National Organization on Disability
- Paralyzed Veterans of America
- President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities
- Society for Accessible Travel & Hospitality
- Spina Bifida Association of America
- United Cerebral Palsy Association
"Even those who support the intent of the law worry that it might have unintended consequences. Among other arguments, they hypothesize that the Act creates additional legal risks for employers who then quietly avoid hiring people with disabilities to avoid this risk. And such researchers (e.g., DeLeire, 2000; Acemoglu & Angrist, 2001) claim to have documented a sharp drop in employment among Individuals with a disability after passage of the Act (see Schwochau & Blanck for counter arguments).
The ADA did not come with a guide for how employees and employers should apply the Act to mental disabilities. Psychologist Dr. John Fielder (1994) wrote a manual for employers that has been used by many parties concerned with issues of cognitive disabilities."
The American Psychiatric Association doesn't appear to be included, among those groups Wiki listed as working for passage of the ADA.
1: Acts of prejudice preventing the hiring of those APA labeled with 'Mental Disabilities' - through the Americans with Disabilities Act - have been addressed.
2: Exceeding the posted speed limit, and overtime parking, have also been addressed.
Who created those paperwork 'Mentally Ill' Disabilities in the First place, with diagnostic labels that Their meal tickets need Federal Legislation to protect them from?
"Thar's GOLD in them thar incurable mental disabilities, and Murdering Dope Deals."
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