Nick,
I'm with you -- to a point! The issue, as I understand it, is that a pharmacy technician must be able to read standard print, poor handwriting, computer screens, and much more. That doesn't mean that BLIND PEOPLE cannot be pharmacy techs. It means that people who cannot read in those ways (who have that functional limitation) cannot be successful as pharmacy techs. Blind people have that functional limitation. Some individuals who are dyslexic have that same functional limitation and may be similarly prohibited from being successful in the field. As an extension of that thinking, then, the blind or deaf person could not be successful in TRADITIONAL law enforcement positions (field work) because of their functional limitations. It may sound like semantics (the difference between attributing limits to disability versus attributing limits to functional limitations), but it is important to remind folks that people with disabilities have *A*bilities, as well!
Dr. Jane Jarrow
