Disability and Disadvantaged Status Information
For the purpose of Goodwill Industries International, reporting and funding, please voluntarily complete the following questionnaire. Please read the statements and mark “yes” if ANY of the statements apply to you. This information will remain confidential and will not be part of your personnel file.
Disability (this would include any of the following):
Blindness or Other Visual Impairment: Blindness refers to the total or partial loss of sight. Legal blindness refers to an individual who has a visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with correction, and/or individuals whose visual field does not exceed 20 degrees.
Deafness or Hearing Impairment: Hard of hearing describes any degree of hearing loss, from light to profound, in a person who may benefit from a hearing aid or some other assistive device. Deafness refers to profound hearing loss in a person who does not have the ability to discriminate speech aurally.
Other Physical Disability: This category includes orthopedic disabilities, arthritis, pulmonary, and cardiac disorders. An orthopedic disability is a disability associated with bone and muscles around the bone. Examples include individuals with amputations, back and spinal cord injuries. Arthritis and rheumatic disease refer to over 100 different diseases that cause inflammation and pain in the joints and can result in loss of mobility. Pulmonary and cardiac disabilities refer to diseases of the lungs and or respiratory system and diseases of the heart or blood vessels respectively.
Neurological Disability: An impairment of the brain and nervous system, this category includes all individuals with head injuries including Tramatic Brain Injury (TBI), Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Multiple Sclerosis, and Epilepsy.
Learning Disability other than Autism: A disability that impacts the understanding or use of language, spoken or written, and that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations. Learning disabilities include Dyslexia, Aphasia, Developmental Writing Disorders, and Central Auditory Processing Disorders, ADD ADHD.
Developmental Disability other than Autism: A diverse group of cognitive, psychological, physical, sensory, and speech impairments that begin anytime during development up to 18 years of age. Mental retardation is the most common developmental disability. This category also includes Downsyndrome, and fetal alcohol syndrome.
Autism: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and autism are both general terms for a group of complex disorders of brain development. These disorders are characterized, in varying degrees, by difficulties in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors. They include autistic disorder, Rett syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder, pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) and Asperger syndrome.
Psychiatric and/or Emotional Disability: A disability that substantially impairs a person's thought, perception of reality, emotional process or judgment. Examples of psychiatric/emotional disabilities include schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorders, and depression.
History of Substance Abuse: Is defined as the history of loss of control over use of a mood altering substance and subsequent use despite negative consequences. This category includes drug and alcohol dependency.
Other disabling condition: Other disabling condition not described above.