Peter.Brown@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Peter Brown) (01/23/91)
Index Number: 13149
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
i attended the ninth annual perspectives on employment of persons with
disabilities conference sponsered by various federal government
agencies and the third annual department of defense (dod) forum. a few
important pieces of info from these events include a total exemption to
the dod hiring freeze, a new cap fund to purchase equipment for dod
employees, and an intesting video tape. as of late november there is
an exemption to the hiring freeze for people with severe disabilities
which includes the 9 targeted disaabilities. a new member of the
higher level dod staff got this exemption aproved. one problem is the
specific defense agency has to work out slots and budget arangements
but a person will be able to make a case to be hired. second, there is
a new group set up and funded with 10.7 million through fiscal year 94
to purchase equipment for reasonable accomodation within the
department of defense (dod). the acronym is cap and my memory is this
stands for computer electronic accomodation program. they are located
at the skyline facility in northern va and currently have 3 employees.
they say they will hire a computer specialist in the near future.
third, the ibm support center and others have issued a goood short
video tape showing managers, disabled employees, and their
accomodations. this briefly shows people at work and i think would
help in convincing a firm to hire a disabled person.
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