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Coble-Temple, A. (Summer, 2002). Understanding the differences between worksite personal assistance services (PAS) and personal PAS on the job: Why this is important to rehabilitation? Rehabilitation Psychology News, 29(4). Retrieved May 5, 2005 from http://www.apa.org/divisions/div22/SummerConv2002news.html
Abstract
This article distinguishes between a definition of PAS that focuses on health and personal care and a more expansive definition that recognizes PAS as assistance that enables a person with a disability to interact with the community and society as a whole. Viewing PAS as a civil rights accommodation that helps people with disabilities negotiate barriers in the environment supports the provision of PAS at the workplace. Workplace PAS can be divided into two types of assistance: job-related tasks involving various types of assistance with workplace mobility, use of office equipment, and cognitive tasks; and personal care tasks on the job. ADA guidelines interpret the former as a reasonable accommodation, but do not require employers to provide the latter. However, a person with a disability may need such services to function in the workplace. Rehabilitation counselors can help consumers identify their needs for PAS in the workplace and prepare them to ask for personal PAS as a reasonable accommodation and counter resistance from employers.
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