The rehabilitation act of 1973 prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of Mental or Physical disability (equal employment opportunity laws, page 14 of 19)
The term "physical or mental disorders" includes diseases and conditions such as orthopedics, visual, speech, and hearing impairments, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and mental disorders. Including but not limited to Mental Disorders and Substance Addiction.
Physical disabilities often involve neuromusculoskeletal disorders. Examples, paraplegia, quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy, motor neuron disease, neuromuscular disorders, cerebral palsy, missing or deformed limbs, spina bifida, arthritis, back problems, ataxia, and bones.
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