I think it’s very important to provide accommodations for disabled people.
However, don’t disabled people have some responsibility to inform complete strangers about their disability in advance so that accommodations could be prepared? During the hiring process, it’s illegal for me to ask, “Are you disabled?” There’s no legal pathway for me to ascertain who might need accommodations and then provide them. I’m also not authorized to provide anything “just in case.”
We have all collectively engineered a situation where everybody is too scared to ask anything lest feelings be hurt and imaginary oppressions occur. This means people must take responsibility for their own needs. It’s not possible to have a community in this environment of suspicion and assumed guilt. Do for yourself, then, and don’t assume anybody else will risk their neck to help out. We don’t have a high-trust society. We have a litigious society that loves to hunt for microagressions. I’m presumed guilty of trying to oppress everybody from the get-go.
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Francis Fukuyama’s: “Trust: The Social Virtures and The Creation of Prosperity” (1995) is the absolute best book to read if you want to understand what has happened to America. Your flagging that we no longer have a high trust society, shows that you are well aware of the profound deleterious effect low trust has on all our interactions and institutions. After reading Fukuyama, I was inspired to write: “In Drain We Trust: A Reflection on the Deterioration in Trust”, (Oregon State Bar Bulletin, June 1996, Vol. 56, No. 8) applying his lessons to our legal system. Since the law is no more or less than a tool of social ordering, properly reflecting the trust level of the society for which it is written is foundational to its success. Would love to read more of your take on this topic.
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Unfortunately, there are still people who won’t hire people who need accommodations if they find out in advance. Unless it’s something visible, common advice tends to lead towards asking for accommodations once hired or after the probationary period.
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I’m hiring deaf people. There’s no way a contract gets signed unless we can communicate. People show up and every time it’s a mystery if they are deaf or hearing with ASL skills. Finding an interpreter on the spot is next to impossible. Every time I find myself in a bizarre situation where people come, and I’m unprepared.
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“Finding an interpreter on the spot is next to impossible.”
There are no local deaf services? Where I lived last in the US there was an office where they could arrange to have an interpreter present before things like doctor’s appointments or job interviews.
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We have interpreters on campus but you know how it is. I have to put in a request in advance, do the paperwork and await permission because the university doesn’t want to pay unless it really needs to pay.
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Now that is an unacceptable nondisclosure. They need an interpreter which means they absolutely need to disclose in that case. That’s just basic communication. Even in the hospital where I work you have to request that in advance. There are some on call for emergencies but an interview is not an emergency.
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That’s what I’m saying. A person shows up and we can’t communicate because I wasn’t told to invite an interpreter. What sense does that make?
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Are you familiar with the current deaf activism discourse? Turns out that getting cochlear implants is a bad thing.
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