American Disability Act 1990

Even the Civil Rights Act , passed in 1964 , did not protect people with disabilities from discrimination . However , the Civil Rights Act was the first among this kind of legislation to formulate actual penalties against those states that did no enforce the Act . These penalties included termination of financial assistance if states and communities receiving federal funds refuse to comply with federal desegregation s (Rubin Roessler , 2001 ,

. 42 . The Civil Rights Act , however , did provide the foundation for other legislation , such as the Architectural Barriers Act , passed in 1968 . In what was

quite possibly the most important move for the disabled community , the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 removed many physical and intellectual barriers to individuals with disabilities . The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 was one of these acts of legislation . The ADA built upon previous acts by prohibiting discrimination against individuals with disabilities , as described in an earlier section

The sociopolitical model came into being at about the same time the ADA was passed . As the medical model fell out of favor , having a disability was no longer considered a stigma and the isolation of individuals with disabilities was slowly put aside . Instead of seeking to segregate the disabled or trying to fix ' them , the new model is attempting to integrate them and bring equality to the disabled population

Individuals with disabilities were brought into the educational system and into the workforce and were perceived as equals perhaps for the first time in history . Both the ADA and the legislation that reauthorized its provisions addressed many areas of discrimination against individuals with disabilities . As part of this focus on discriminatory practices , Title I of the ADA addressed pre-employment testing and screening . According to Power (2000 ) the ADA mandated when employment testing should be done , and described how testing must...