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'Hire the Handicapped' Is More Than a Phrase

Published: Jun 01, 1980. Publicly Released: Jun 01, 1980.
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This article appeared in the GAO Review, Vol. 15, Issue 2, Spring 1980. The San Francisco Regional Office has instituted a broadly active program for recruiting and developing handicapped staff members. They maintain contact with other agencies and organizations which deal with handicapped persons. The office has an active program for educating its own staff to the facts and myths surrounding the handicapped. It ensured that its new quarters were barrier free, a prerequisite to hiring the handicapped. By conducting a job analysis from the standpoint of physical and environmental demands, jobs were identified which could be filled by people with physical handicaps. Four handicapped persons were hired to fill jobs in the region. The office has been active in establishing a personnel information exchange system for handicapped job applicants. It has also been active in various job training programs, one of which trains people with severe disabilities in computer programming and places them in jobs. The office has also been active in public information programs regarding the handicapped.

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