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The Americans with Disabilities Act requires that employers make reasonable accommodations for individuals who have disabilities. How might this requirement affect teachers, law enforcement officers, and firefighters? How is it legal for law enforcement to turn applicants away for diseases like type 2 diabetes?Be sure to respond to at least one of your classmates’ posts.This is my classmate post:The Americans with Disability Act of 1990 is a law that forbids the discrimination of people with disabilities. Additionally, the law requires that employers provide rational accommodation to disabled employees and impose requirements on accommodations. The disabilities recognised by the ADA include both physical and mental conditions. Such conditions don’t have to be permanent or severe; however, conditions that affect a person’s normal functioning are considered disabilities. For instance, they include; blindness, deafness, mental retardation, missing limbs, cancer, autism, diabetes, epilepsy and HIV infection. However, certain conditions that are broadly considered evil such as paedophilia, voyeurism, exhibitionism and kleptomania are excluded from the law (Pfeiffer, 1994).The Americans with Disabilities Act covers secondary and elementary institutions as public accommodations. Therefore, such institutions must be accessible to disabled students and teachers. The ADA has allowed disabled teachers to get teaching opportunities in great institutions, allowing them to bring new learning techniques and technologies to the table. Because disabilities act as barriers to employment into law

enforcement and fire fighting; it is unheard of to have disabled officers and firefighters. However, if the disability doesn’t affect such employees’ proper functioning, it will be a breach of the law to deny them employment, and this is punishable by a court of law (Pellegrini & Geissler, 2020).Employers are required to provide accommodation to employees diagnosed with diabetes. However, accommodation often varies depending on the patient’s needs, ranging from high, little to no cost. Therefore, some employers may legally deny diabetes people employment. It may involve the inclusion of a private test area where they test their blood for high or low sugar levels. Such private sites may also be used for the administration of insulin injection. Additionally, such patients require a resting place as they monitor their blood sugar levels. Therefore, struggling enterprises may fail to provide such services due to financial constraints hence failing to accommodate such employees (Pfeiffer, 1994). Police departments may turn down candidates with type 2 diabetes because of the nature of the job being public safety and diabetes care during shifts could hinder their sensitive job performance.ReferencesPellegrini, L., & Geissler, K. (2020). Disability, Federal Disability Benefits, and Health Care Access After the Affordable Care Act. Journal Of Disability Policy Studies, 104420732091995. https://doi.org/10.1177/1044207320919959Pfeiffer, D. (1994). The Americans with Disabilities Act: Costly Mandates or Civil Rights?. Disability & Society, 9(4), 533-542. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599466780501