[nfb-talk] blind job seekers
Kenneth Chrane
kenneth.chrane at verizon.net
Tue Mar 18 16:28:31 CDT 2008
Hi Cheryl, I have been making several attemps to find employment in
Baltimore, Maryland, and sofar, I have only succeed in getting my foot into
the door.
I only worked for Super Eagle Supply from March until June of 2007 and that
was only because there was a contract with BISM.
For the rest of 2007, I did Volunteer work as a Rehab Receptionist for BISM
and some idiot accused me for being aggressive on the phone with a customer.
Just this last Monday, I applied for a position as a PBX Switchboard
operator with the Pikesville, Maryland at the Hilton Hotel.
I hope that I can land the job.
This is the situation that I find myself in.
In Baltimore, no one wants to hire the blind.
People in Baltimore are very hesitant when it comes to hiring blind people.
Sincerely,
Kenneth Chrane
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Tell me about it, I just finished Branford Hall studying Medical
Billing/Coding and the school as part of the class we have an internship
which the school finds for us, not us finding the internship and they have
been having problems find me one because I am blind. I have been finished
with my classes since last Monday, and I need 150 hrs of internship to
graduate, how suck is this.
Cheryl Echevarria
Treasurer
NFB of NY/Long Island Chapter
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1. FW: [Acbny-l] Blind People Face Lingering Workplace Bias
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2. FW: [CCB-L] Candle in the Window (Eric Calhoun)
3. Re: FW: [Acbny-l] Blind People Face Lingering Workplace Bias
(RyanO)
4. Blind Job Seekers Still Face Discrimination: (Kenneth Chrane)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:57:43 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: [nfb-talk] FW: [Acbny-l] Blind People Face Lingering
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Subject: [Acbny-l] Blind People Face Lingering Workplace Bias
Date:
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:45:08 -0400
Blind People Face Lingering Workplace Bias
BY Associated Press
March 17, 2008
URL:
http://www.nysun.com/article/73021<http://www.nysun.com/article/73021>
Technology and training have improved to the point that blind people can
adeptly perform a dazzling array of jobs - soon to include the
governorship
of New York. The biggest obstacle still in their way, advocates say, is
the
negative attitude of many employers.
The most recent available statistics suggest that only about 30% of
working-age blind people have jobs. That figure was calculated more than
10
years ago, but the major groups lobbying on behalf of blind Americans
believe it remains accurate despite numerous technological advances.
"Most people don't know a blind person, so they assume that blind people
are not capable of doing most jobs when in fact that's not true," a
spokesman for the National Federation of the Blind, Chris Danielson, said.
Exhibit A, for the moment, is the incoming governor, David Paterson.
"Unfortunately we're still living in an age of misperceptions of what
blind people can do," the president of the American Foundation for the
Blind, Carl Augusto, said. "We're hoping that an employer considering
hiring a blind person will say that if David Paterson can be governor and
be legally blind, maybe this applicant who is blind can be a good computer
programmer."
There are an estimated 10 million visually impaired people in the United
States, including about 1.3 million who are legally blind, according to
Mr.
Augusto's foundation.
The foundation says legal blindness is generally described as visual
acuity of 20-200 or less in the better eye, with a corrective lens. Mr.
Paterson has enough sight in his right eye to walk unaided, recognize
people at conversational distance, and read if the text is close to his
face.
In theory, those people are covered by the Americans with Disabilities
Act, which among its many provisions requires employers to give fair
consideration and treatment to visually impaired employees and job
applicants. But Mr. Augusto said employers routinely turn down blind
applicants without incurring legal sanction.
"The ADA is a wonderful law, but many employers find a way not to
seriously consider blind people," he said. "They look at themselves and
then say, 'I can't imagine how a blind person can be a computer
programmer.
They can't possibly do it.'"
Advocacy groups work persistently to change such attitudes, with employer
education programs and public appearances by successful blind people to
discuss capabilities. One component of such campaigns is to raise
awareness
of the technology that helps blind people handle more types of jobs -
including software that reads aloud information on a computer screen.
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Subject: [nfb-talk] FW: [CCB-L] Candle in the Window
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Subject: [CCB-L] Candle in the Window
Date:
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:46:59 -0400
Candle in the Window, a small national non-profit organization with the
aim
of building both individual skills and a sense of community among persons
with visual impairments, welcomes blind people with varied experiences to
join them at their 21st annual conference entitled "Family Matters: The
Roles of Blindness in Family Life."
We aim to address such questions as:
* What family influences continue to shape our approach to blindness?
* What factors (culture, the "blindness system," etc.) influenced our
families' attitude towards blindness, and how did they respond?
* What differences, if any, exist between family relationships of those
who
grew up while blind compared to those who became blind later in life?
* How do we negotiate dependence-independence issues in current family
relationships?
In addition to provocative presentations and stimulating discussions,
there
will be plenty of time for hiking, eating, singing, quiet reflection, and
just plain "hanging out."
The conference will take place from Wednesday, September 10 through the
morning of Sunday, September 14th, at Wooded Glen, a lovely retreat center
located in Henryville, Indiana just outside of Louisville, Kentucky.
Cost: $475 for two to a room; $455 for three to a room; and $405 for four
to
a room. A $40 discount if we receive a $35 NON-REFUNDABLE deposit by
August
1); limited scholarships and payment plans available.
For additional information, please contact Becky Barnes at (914) 243-2210
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Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] FW: [Acbny-l] Blind People Face Lingering
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This article is right on the money. Blind people are pigeon-holed into
several work niches because employers have figured out subtle ways to
avoid
hiring them. It's a shame, since we have made some major strides in a few
areas, but equal employment is still the phantom that eludes us.
RyanO
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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:28:05 -0400
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Mar 16, 1:50 PM EDT
Employer bias thwarts many blind workers
By DAVID CRARY
AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- Technology and training have improved to the point that
blind people can adeptly perform a dazzling array of jobs - soon to
include
the governorship of New York. The biggest obstacle still in their way,
advocates say, is the negative attitude of many employers.
The most recent available statistics suggest that only about 30 percent of
working-age blind people have jobs. That figure was calculated more than
10
years ago, but the major groups lobbying on behalf of blind Americans
believe it remains accurate despite numerous technological advances.
"Most people don't know a blind person, so they assume that blind people
are
not capable of doing most jobs when in fact that's not true," said Chris
Danielson, spokesman for the National Federation of the Blind.
Exhibit A, for the moment, is David Paterson, the legally blind lieutenant
governor of New York from Harlem who will be sworn in Monday as governor,
replacing scandal-tarnished Eliot Spitzer.
However, blind people hold all sorts of jobs these days - judge, fitness
trainer, TV show host, registered nurse, lawyer and so on.
"Unfortunately we're still living in an age of misperceptions of what
blind
people can do," said Carl Augusto, president of the American Foundation
for
the Blind. "We're hoping that an employer considering hiring a blind
person
will say that if David Paterson can be governor and be legally blind,
maybe
this applicant who is blind can be a good computer programmer."
There are an estimated 10 million visually impaired people in the United
States, including about 1.3 million who are legally blind, according to
Augusto's foundation. The foundation says legal blindness is generally
described as visual acuity of 20-200 or less in the better eye, with a
corrective lens. Paterson has enough sight in his right eye to walk
unaided,
recognize people at conversational distance and read if the text is close
to
his face.
In theory, those people are covered by the Americans with Disabilities
Act,
which among its many provisions requires employers to give fair
consideration and treatment to visually impaired employees and job
applicants. But Augusto said employers routinely turn down blind
applicants
without incurring legal sanction.
"The ADA is a wonderful law, but many employers find a way not to
seriously
consider blind people," he said. "They look at themselves and then say, 'I
can't imagine how a blind person can be a computer programmer. They can't
possibly do it.'"
Advocacy groups work persistently to change such attitudes, with employer
education programs and public appearances by successful blind people to
discuss their capabilities. One component of such campaigns is to raise
awareness of the ever-evolving technology that helps blind people handle
more types of jobs - including software that reads aloud information on a
computer screen and scanners that can covert printed material into Braille
or an accessible electronic format.
"The assisted technology has made the playing field as level as it's ever
been for blind people," said Kirk Adams, president of Seattle's Lighthouse
for the Blind, a nonprofit agency that provides job help. "There are fewer
and fewer jobs a blind person can't do."
Adams, 46, said being blind seemed a hindrance when he first began
post-college job hunting, but he was hired as a securities broker and
later
served in various nonprofit fundraising jobs before moving to Lighthouse,
which has 190 blind people on its payroll.
One problem he notes is the difficulty many young blind people face in
getting short-term or part-time work during high school and college.
"There's a real divergence with sighted kids," Adams said. "It's very
typical that a blind kid at 16 or 18 is not having success finding that
first employment - we see a lot of frustration around that age because
employers may not be thinking about making those short-term jobs
accessible."
The American Foundation for the Blind says it latest research indicates
that
once young blind people complete top-notch training and education
programs,
they attain an employment rate not much lower than sighted people. But
Augusto said the overall portion of blind people with jobs remains low
because many older workers who lose vision in middle age drop out of the
work force rather than undergo retraining.
"You get a bunch of people in their 50s who all of sudden are visually
impaired - they can't drive anymore, they'll get Social Security benefits
and maybe disability insurance," Augusto said. "They say, 'The heck with
it,
we're not going back to work. We don't want to go through the
rehabilitation
training - it's too hard.'"
Kevin Worley, a blind Coloradan, runs a company that provides thousands of
meals a day to Army troops at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs. About 70
percent of his 200 employees are blind or otherwise disabled.
"There are still stereotypes of blind people," he said. "When employers,
educators, even parents of blind kids have those stereotypes and low
expectations, many are being kept down and out."
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which tracks workplace
discrimination cases covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, says
455 such complaints were filed last year by visually impaired workers -
the
highest number since 1995.
"If someone's blind, there's a huge stigma to overcome and all kinds of
myths and fears in the employer community," EEOC spokesman David Grinberg
said.
"The fact is that in the 21st century workplace people who are blind are
just as able to do a job as anyone else - they just need to be given a
chance," he said. "They know the deck is stacked against them. They work
harder than others, and they end out being more effective workers."
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