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From: era@niwot.scd.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Employment
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Date: 14 Sep 90 13:00:46 GMT
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Index Number: 10354

In article <13791@bunker.UUCP> cas@mtdcb.att.com (Clifford A Stevens, Jr)
writes:
|Index Number: 10051
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|In article <13707@bunker.UUCP>, era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold) writes:
|> Index Number: 9991
|> In article <13651@bunker.UUCP> Kevin.White@f120.n138.z1.fidonet.org writes:
|> >Index Number: 9942
|> None of the persons with moderate disabilities I know, are driving BMWs
|> (or any car, for that matter), or drinking Perrier.
|
|Ed, 
|No sarcasm intended, I'm just curious.  But how do you define severe and
|moderate disabilities?  

Well, I'm no clinician.  But then, you're no Dan Quayle.  :-)

To me, "profound" means a case in which the brain stem is working,
but the cortex isn't.

"severe" means a case in which the person has no mobility, including
no ability to self-feed.

Everything else is moderate or mild.  I hope all the blinks and HIs
don't jump on me for this definition.  :-)

Cheers,
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