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Disabled Still Face Job Discrimination
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Business New Haven
10/16/2000
By: BNH
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NEW HAVEN - One fourth of all working disabled persons report job discrimination within the past five years, based on their disability, according to a new study by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine. Also, individuals with all forms of disabilities reported substantial social and economic barriers to work over and above the clinical symptoms of their illness.
“The Americans with Disabilities Act should outlaw this kind of discrimination,” says Benjamin Druss, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and in the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health at Yale. “The results [of the study] indicate the importance of such legislation, and the need to monitor its implementation.”
Druss was lead author of the study, and says the findings illustrate important differences between mental disabilities - reported by one-third of disabled Americans - and physical disabilities. For instance, he says, “It is probably easier for an employer to build a ramp [for the physically disabled] than to address the gaps in social and cognitive function seen in patients with mental disorders.”
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