Disabilities. Opportunities

Now that 80% or more of children survive their primary cancers, the incidence of secondary neoplasms may increase. Recognizing this potential, many treatment regimens for children are being modified appropriately to reduce exposure to alkylators, topoisomerase inhibitors, and radiation. Late effects clinics screen for secondary malignancies and other disease and treatment-related disabilities that accompany childhood cancer. Similar screening and educational opportunities are not currently established in adult survivors. 

Currently, gene therapy is restricted to life-threatening and severely disabling diseases, but when a larger safety database has been accumulated there should be expanded opportunities for therapy. It is not possible or desirable to identify a uniform recipe for the safety studies that should be conducted with gene therapy... 

The Agricultural Extension Service offers its programs to all eligible persons regardless of race, color, age, national origin, sex, disability, religion or veteran status and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

Discrimination includes limiting, segregating, or classifying a job apphcant or employee in a way that adversely affects his or her opportunities or status based on the person s disability. The ADA specifically covers job apphcation procedures hiring, advancement, and discharge procedures compensation and benefit packages and job training. 

M offers its employees tuition reimbursement an employee assistance program adoption assistance onsite fitness centers a Work and Personal Life Resource Center educational opportunities domestic partner benefits health and dependent care reimbursement accounts and medical, dental, disability and life insurance. 

Employees at GE Global Research receive medical benefits, dental care, vision care, disability programs, product purchase discounts, educational assistance, adoption assistance, legal and financial information services, childcare assistance and more. The company also offers employee development and a variety of opportunities for student job-exposure and internship. 

In addition to sexual harassment and accommodation of religious beliefs, equal treatment for individuals with disabilities is a significant issue for the treatment of both employees and customers. The Americans with Disabilities Act provides equal opportunity for persons who are disabled in the workplace. This act prohibits discrimination in all aspects of employment from hiring to firing, similar to practices that are covered by equal opportunity employment laws. Persons are considered disabled if they have either a physical or mental impairment that significantly limits one or more major life activities or have a record of impairment. Also, discrimination against a person who has a relationship with a disabled person is prohibited. 

Gonzales, Claire. Example MCS Disability EEOC Guidance Letter. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. July 24,1996. www.jan.wvu.edu/letters/EEOC Lette r M CS Disab ilityj uly 9 6. doc. 

Bogner et al. (2006) have pointed out that in order to see with the mind s eye requires stimuli that elicit familiar things. Nothing becomes familiar until sufficient exposure has taken place. These sensorial experiments provide the means to expose visually impaired students to chemistry experimentation and to become familiar with chemical techniques and procedures. The academic success of students with disabilities is higher when this population is included in traditional classrooms and is provided the opportunity to engage in active learning (Baker... 

As this chapter has highlighted, sensorial experiment procedures allow students with visual impairments to actively participate in chemistry laboratories, along with nondisabled classmates. The instructional materials developed require minimal need of peripheral equipment, have comparable preparation times and cost to traditional laboratories, and are properly designed to fulfill safety requirements. The incorporation of available technologies into these experiments makes it possible to adapt these chemistry experiments to the needs of students with sensorial disabilities. As these experiments are disseminated and implemented in chemistry laboratories, the opportunity to encourage the interest of students with visual impairments to study chemistry increases. The prospect is to change mistaken views about the potential, inherent in all, to contribute and enjoy science. 

American Chemical Society (ACS). Working chemists with disabilities Expanding opportunities in science. http //membership.acs.Org/C/CWD/ workchem/start.htm (accessed December 14,2009). 

Employees are offered medical, dental and vision insurance a 401(k) savings plan with a company match life insurance tuition reimbursement disability coverage a product purchase plan quarterly bonus opportunities and attendance bonuses for hourly employees. 

Fortunately, this view of limitation and exclusion is beginning to change. On April 16 [1976], the Department of Labor issued regulations that mandate equal-employment opportunities for the handicapped. By and large, the business community s response to offering employment to the disabled has been enthusiastic. 

Opportunities in psychiatric pharmacy continue to expand with specialists practicing in hospitals, clinics, longterm care facilities, developmentally disabled centers, prisons, academia, and the pharmaceutical industry. Although acute care facilities exist to treat the most severely ill patients, primary care clinics provide service for the majority of patients. Model practice settings exist for both acute and primary care, and are discussed later in this article. Other opportunities are discussed in this section. 

Screening tests, based on the recombinant DNA techniques outlined in this chapter, have been developed for many inherited diseases. Although these tests are currently rather expensive, particularly if entire families have to be screened, the cost may be trivial compared with the burden of raising children with severe disabilities. Obviously, ethical considerations must be taken into account, but recombinant DNA technology has provided individuals with the opportunity to make choices. 

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