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From: Greg.See-Kee@f631.n712.z3.fidonet.org (Greg See-Kee)
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Subject: Re: interest tests
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Date: 28 Jun 90 17:03:26 GMT
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 MA> I hate to see it
 MA> when the rehab professionals use them to try to force someone into 
 MA> a field which doesn't interest them in the least but which will be 
 MA> easier for the counselor to plug them into.

We as the disabled people, see it as being the Individual person
who forces us.  But it is really the Organization.

My first rehab centre said:  "Throw him in a geriatric nursing
home - too brain-damaged!".

My second rehab centre said: "(One-handed) Data Entry Operator!"

The government stopped funding the second center, and it (Queen
Elizabeth II Rehab) closed down.

As I was being assessed by the second center, I realized that I
was in fact more trained/ experienced in this Disability work
than many of the staff members employed there.  My assessor
realized that too - but he had the organization pressuring him.

 MA> When he refused, they stopped giving him services.

Those were the days of "Normalization" - where we are expected to
tightly conform to the job-stereotypes that the Able-Bodieds have
of the world.

In modern Rehabilitation theory, there are new fashions.  I've
been out of the Rehab Industry ever since I was disabled five
years ago - so I'm not sure what the latest fashions are.

I think it is something like I was doing in "Co-Counselling"
(brand-named "Re-evaluation Counselling").

This is "EMPOWERING the INDIVIDUAL".

This new fashion has flaws too.  But I don't know if there is any
interest in this conference in long-term things like
Rehabilitation from (into?) Disability.

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