Comments on: The ADA at 20 – Are We There Yet? http://216.92.13.139/2010/07/the-ada-at-20-are-we-there-yet/ IT Staffing Leveraging Professionals with Disabilities Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:25:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jim Gallo http://216.92.13.139/2010/07/the-ada-at-20-are-we-there-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-364 Jim Gallo Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:50:49 +0000 http://www.nablement.com/?p=557#comment-364 Nice article Pat. We disabled get wrapped up in our lives that we forget about others with disabilities and somehow compartmentalize that since we get to work independently, most of the other disabled should be able to..and those that can't can take a Pace bus. But I cringe at the thought of having to take one of those buses to get to work. During the ADA Anniversary discussion, I read somewhere that the unemployment of disabled has actually gotten worse - hopefully that is incorrect but have not been able to locate the source. You are very correct though that even as I type this, I think in terms of the disabled landing a job but don't even think about how they get there. And the latter actually may be the bigger stumbling block. The issue of getting the job seems easy to tackle. Getting all the disabled folks transportation when they have none seems like a monstrous undertaking and frankly, I would have no idea where to even start.. You have it right with the urban planners but as you mention, a one day conference is absurd. One can't even outline the issues in one week let alone attempt to find solutions. One day looks like total lip service - something the ADA was supposed to arrest. Nice article Pat. We disabled get wrapped up in our lives that we forget about others with disabilities and somehow compartmentalize that since we get to work independently, most of the other disabled should be able to..and those that can’t can take a Pace bus. But I cringe at the thought of having to take one of those buses to get to work. During the ADA Anniversary discussion, I read somewhere that the unemployment of disabled has actually gotten worse – hopefully that is incorrect but have not been able to locate the source.

You are very correct though that even as I type this, I think in terms of the disabled landing a job but don’t even think about how they get there. And the latter actually may be the bigger stumbling block. The issue of getting the job seems easy to tackle. Getting all the disabled folks transportation when they have none seems like a monstrous undertaking and frankly, I would have no idea where to even start.. You have it right with the urban planners but as you mention, a one day conference is absurd. One can’t even outline the issues in one week let alone attempt to find solutions. One day looks like total lip service – something the ADA was supposed to arrest.

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