FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities

FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities

"The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is actively recruiting workers who suffer "severe intellectual" disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website.
"Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring," the FAA’s website states. 

"They include 

• hearing, 
• vision, 
• missing extremities, 
• partial paralysis, 
• complete paralysis, 
• epilepsy, 
• severe intellectual disability, 
• psychiatric disability and 
• dwarfism."

The initiative is part of the FAA’s "Diversity and Inclusion" hiring plan...