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March 2&, 1983 COMMONVEAItfH OF PENNSYIVANIA HOUSE OP REPARATIVES COMMOTBE ON APPROPRIATIONS In reI Budget Request - 1983 - 1984 Pittsburgh Block Grant Hearing » * * Verbatim report of hearing held in Conference Boon #1* Allegheny County Court House, Pittcburgh, Pennsylvania, on TCiuriday, March 2&, 1983 lOiOO A.M. HOT. MAX PIEVSKY, CHAIRMAN Hon. Kurt Zwikl, vice*Chairman Hon* Joseph M. Hoeffel, III, Secretary Hon. H. William DeWeeee, Chairman Subcommittee on Capital Budget Hon. Jamea CI. Mclntyre, Chairman Subcommittee Health and Welfare Hon* Halph Pratt, Chairman Subcommittee en Education MEMBERS OP COMMITTEE. C^.Ay^RC^RIATICWS Hon. Mary Ann Arty Hon* Joeeph 0. Manmlllar Hon. Gibson Armstrong Hon. Richard A* McClatchy Hon. Thomas R. Caltagirone Hon* Oerald F. McMonegle Hon. Italo 8. Cappabianca Hon* George Misctvioh {ton* Brian D. Clark Hon* Nicholas B. Moehlmann Hon. Roy W. Cornell Hon, Howard P. Mowery* Jr. Hon. Ronald R« Cowell Hon* Frank Piatella Hon* Alphonao Deal Hon* George F» Pott, Jr. Hon* Dwlght Evans Hon, Camel Sirianni Hon. Stephen Frelnd Hon* William J* Stewart Hon. Allen KUkovlch Eon* Ted stuban Hon* Joseph Levi* III Hon* Edward A* Wiggins Hon* Stephen E« Levin Hon, Peter R« Vroon Reported byt Nancy J* 4taelman, KFK Uorotntj I I .• I^alone |<egistorea j-'rofoir ional |<eporter 135 o- Landit ~>treet (—Iummelrtown, Penntqlvania 11036 AISO PRESENT! i| ii i mi nw^ ^■nnufWH Staff Bill Diogeey Staff Representative ThomaB A. Michlovic Douglas Knapp Staff Representative David J* Mayemlk INDEX «*• fl» «■» MM ■» Page Honorable Leonard C. Staleey 5 Judge, Allegheny County Keren Kelly 17 Association of Retarded Citizens of Pennsylvania Br, Jerry Kokalis "'2 American Tecnmcal ineviwce Marty Friday 50 Beverly Childress 55 Women's Shelter and Center of Greater Pittsburgh Nancy Karp 5& Armstrong counxy Mary Alice Babusci 107 Executive Director, center for victims oi vioxem. Drxste Ignore Patton 111 Shelter Coordinator, The Alice Paul House Kathy Haluefea 107 Women's Resource Center !££££ (Continued) ?*JS,? Kathleen P. Klelnmann 124 Three Rlvere Center for Independent Living Joni Rablnowltz 133 fublic Policy Advocate Bey Webb 148 National /iOBOCiation of Socxei uontere Eileen ChoeKeltcn. 162 President* open Doom for the Handicapped Pittsburgh Chapter Jatoefi Knox 171 Director* Allegheny County Department of Planning David Uigle 172 Program Coordinator, Allegheny County Handicap Program Ken Eemcoy 19*K Representative of the Drug end Alcohol Abutsc Field Reverend Vincent bright 206 VJllllam H. Heyei 209 Martha H, Gervey 205 Peniu&vanla Advieory Commieeion to the United states Commission en Civil Righto Carol Mitchell 2.hb Director* Verland Center Don Qoughler 25* won volley tieaxxh ond ire ouncil CHAIRMAN DeWEESE; Judge Staisey has asked to have five minutes on our agenda. So, Karen Kelly of the Association of Retarded Citizens of Pennsylvania will please he ready at 10(05 roughly. We are going to try to askk everyone to share four, five, six, seven minutes with ue in a rather informal way and then we'd like to ask a fee questions* There is an inherent constraint as far as the tine parameter and we would be very grateful if you would try to keep within that time span. My name is Bill DeWeeee. For the record, I'm from Greene County. I would like for the other Members of the House including George Mleeevlch from Allegheny County to please introduce themselves and then we'll ask the Judge to make his remarks, REPRESENTATIVE PISTELLAj State Representative Frank Plstella from the City, of Pittsburgh, 21st Legislative District * MR. WitEYi. Dick Wiley, Staff of the Appropria­ tions Committee* REPRESENTATIVE KUKOVICH: Allen Kukovich, Representative from Westmoreland County. REPRESENTATIVE COWELLt Ron Cowell from Allegheny County. REPRESENTATIVE CIARKj Brian Clark from Allegheny County. MR, KNAPP: Douglas Khapp, Staff, Appropriations Committee* MR. DiOGSEYi Bill Diogsey, Staff, Appropriations , CHAIRMAN DeWEESE: So, we have some Democrats. I'm sure some Republicans will tee around later. Bill represents them on their staff. Judge, will you please commence• JUDGE 8TAISEY8 Thank you very much, Representative DeVeeae. At the very outset, I went to thank you and the Members of the House for a unanimous vote which you gave to a Bill that was submitted to you laet year which made it possible for deaf persons and thoB© hard of hearing to have interpreters before any administrative agency of the state. We have another-Bill which we will send you this year having to do with allowing deaf persons to have interpreters in the civil courts of Pennsylvania. That is purely an oversight. Nowhere in the code is provision made for that. It Is made in the criminal courts. This is symptomatic and typical of what has been happening to those of us who are handicapped. Legislation is passed and for some reason or other we are not computed into that legi6la- tlon. let iso eay very briefly that the greatest handi­ cap that a handicapped person has la not the handicap but it's rather the negative perception and attitude which the public has toward the handicap. How, this is not condemna­ tory of the public at all. On the contrary, it's become a part of our culture* People have been very generous and very kind to us except that we have historically played a certain role in society. If you depart from the norm, then you are to be treated differently* There is a price to be paid for that difference. However, In 1981 when the United Nations instituted the International Year of Disabled Persons and then In 1982 when we organized the National Year of Disabled Persons and your House unanimously sponsored end passed both of those resolutions for which we are deeply grateful, a tremendous change has come across this country. There are new partnerships being formed. There Is participa­ tion* There is a new awareness among people that among us in this people 35 million disabled persons exists, people who are physically, mentally and emotionally disabled, Impaired and handicapped. I myself refer to them as handicapped because that's what X have been called ell my life and X think you ought to meet the issue On and not concern yourself with semantics. As a result of the international Year end the National Year of Disabled Per8one, it's become apparent that this idea that you equate disability with inability is wholly incorrect, and one of the great Injustices of otir time. The new awareness and the more sophistication of our people is beginning to sweep this aside. The second thing that has happened, there has been in the last ten years a tremendous explosion in bio- medicine , in new technology* in imaginative rehabilitation, and In targeted training, I wish I had the time just to tell you some of the things that are happening that are compensated for the losses that are occasioned by handicaps. when you come down to the physically handicapped person, really wo are ordinary people with extraordinary possibilities like the rest of you. The only difference is that we have sustained a loss. With the new bio-medicine, technology, rehabilitation and training that has exploded In the last ten years, we are now possible to compensate for those losses. Juet a few examples. Out at the School for Blind Children, for example, we have a Kure-Weil (phonetic) machine which Xerox has Juat taken OVQT. This machine you can place a book on it, press a button and it says left page ' and you press another button and It says top line, press another button and It says ready to read. And the voice attachment on the hook reads It to you* We now have voice- activated wheelchairs and there is a whole host *- we have optieons for blind people, for example, that you can actually read the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this morning If you so choose, $o> the fact of. the loss of vision is now being compensated for by the new technology. TfJhat does this mean? This moans that we are now able to compete in private industry and to take our place as productive citizens. The third thing that has happened is employers , during the International Year, became aware of the fact that people in their service during the period of their service are becoming disabled and handicapped. They feel an obligation to them and consequently they have Instituted rehabilitiation programs in^house and this experience has taught them that there is at least two ways of doing anything, These people can remain in the plant. They retain their expeitence and the company benefits from it. From that has come an awareness now that handicapped people can be accepted into industry and this ie not only the physically handicapped but also those who are mentally retarded* IBM runs courses across this country, some 16 areas hove It. Ve are going to get It here in Pittsburgh pretty soon, lest year they trained 400 handicapped people* They placed 80 percent of those people. Dupont did a study recently with their 2700 handicapped people and discovered that the handicapped are in the 9&id percentile of productivity, in the 90th percentile of attendance, and the 85th percentile as far as lost-time accidents are concerned. There has been this idea if you hire a handicapped person, he Is prone to accidents; If you hire a handicapped perron, your insurance rates go up. All of those barriers, all of the misconceptions are beginning to fall to the wayeide and employers are beginning to realize that handicapped people are very loyal employees. They are good on attendance. They have high productivity and, above all, they are long-term employees, not because we are special people but because wo don't have the options the rest of you do.
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