‘AutomationWill Hit Handicapped First’
(New Zealand Press Association)
ROTORUA, August 21.
Handicapped persons would be some of the first hit by automation, Mr A. R. Kerse, supervisor of the cerebral palsy unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Rotorua, said yesterday.
Mr Kerse recently returned from an overseas study tour. As the need for technical skills increased, the area of work available for handicapped persons decreased. In the light of this, education of the handicapped, and of cerebral palsy sufferers in particular, would need to be realistic in its basic aims, he said. Overseas it was becoming increasingly evident that handicapped persons, even those
with recognised educational qualifications, were finding it difficult to compete in an open community because of the decreasing job opportunity. Mr Kerse said New Zealand’s cerebral palsy homevisiting service was envied overseas. While in America he saw a novel group-teaching method where children at home or in a hospital were taught lessons over a telephone link.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31144, 22 August 1966, Page 1
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