Changing Perceptions About People with Disabilities While Working in a Fulfilling Career
Posted on April 10, 2024 – 12:12 pm by Amy Lynn Smith
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When Ronit Mazzoni works as a Genetic Counselor in a fertility and reproductive department, she brings a unique perspective as a person who is blind. While working with patients or students studying to become Genetic Counselors, she gives them a perspective they won’t get from anyone else there. That’s an excellent thing for a number of reasons.
Blind since birth, Ronit says people with disabilities are often misrepresented in the healthcare field because disabilities are perceived as something that needs to be cured or treated. Not to mention that there are very few people with disabilities working in health care, she adds.
“Sometimes I feel like I’m educating people passively, just by the fact that I’m there doing the work,” says Ronit, whose eyes were small and underdeveloped at birth due to bilateral microphthalmia.
Her current job
In her current job, she helps [...]