MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
Defendants move, pursuant to Fed. R.Civ.P. 59(e) and 60(b), for amendment of the judgment or relief from the decision and order of this Court?rendered on July 3, 1997 (the “Opinion”), familiarity with which is assumed. For the reasons to be discussed, defendants’ motion is DENIED.
I. The Court’s Use of The EEOC Regulations Under Title I of the ADA
A. The Appropriateness of Employing Title I Regulations Generally
In its Opinion, the Court used the regulations promulgated by the EEOC under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (the “ADA” or the “Act”) to elucidate and expand upon the Court’s understanding of the concept of “substantial limitation” as it relates to defining who is disabled under the Act. The Court employed the Title I regulations for this purpose even though plaintiffs claim was brought under Titles II and III of the Act, and the Department of Justice, not the EEOC, is charged with promulgating regulations pursuant to those titles. While neither party directly challenges the Court’s use of the EEOC regulations and interpretive guidance, the tenor of the defendants’ instant motion for reconsideration implies that the use of the Title I regulations was somehow inappropriate.1 The Court disagrees for the following reasons.
Initially, one must understand, how, if at all, regulations under Title I and Title II differ, keeping in mind that the statutory definition of “disabled” is the same for all titles of the Act and , that no agency is imbued with dispositive authority to state what the term means. The only difference between the Title I regulations promulgated by the EEOC and the Title II regulations *390promulgated by the Justice Department is that the EEOC goes to much greater lengths to explore the concept of substantial limitation, particularly as that concept relates to the major life activity of working. Both sets of regulations define a disability— according to the statutory definition — as an impairment that substantially limits any major life activity. Both regulations list the following examples of major life activities: “caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working.” 29 C.F.R. § 1630.2(i) (Title I regulation) (emphasis added); 28 C.F.R. § 36.104(2) (Title II regulation) (emphasis added).
Clearly, then, the Department of Justice in promulgating rules under Title II contemplated an assessment of a plaintiffs impairment under the major life activity of working. The only question is whether the Department of Justice regulations under Title II forecloses application of the EEOC’s interpretation that substantial limitation in the context of the major life activity of working should be measured by a different reference population — by a comparison to “the average person with comparable training, skills and abilities” 29 C.F.R. § 1630.2(j)(l)(ii) rather than “the average person in the general population.” 29 C.F.R. § 1630.2(j)(3)(i).2 I hereby reaffirm my pri- or conclusion that the EEOC’s interpretation of substantial limitation in the context of the major life activity of working is both a part of, and consistent with, the Department of Justice’s regulations and the purpose of the ADA.
I reach this conclusion in part because of the cooperative spirit in which the regulations were promulgated. See, e.g., I Henry H. Perritt, Jr., Americans With Disabilities Act Handbook § 1.9 (3d ed.1997) (discussing the fact that the Justice Department and EEOC regulations were issued jointly, as required by § 107(b) of the ADA). In addition, the Department of Justice’s own “[r]ule of interpretation,” under Title II provides: “Except as otherwise provided in this part, this part shall not be construed to apply a lesser standard than the standards applied under title V of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 ... or the regulations issued by Federal agencies pursuant to that title.” 28 C.F.R. § 36.103. Notably, the Rehabilitation Act now looks to the standards established by Title I of the ADA and the regulations promulgated thereunder. See 29 U.S.C. § 793(d) (providing that “[t]he standards used to determine whether this section has been violated in a complaint alleging nonaffirmative action employment discrimination under this section shall be the standards applied under title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act”).
In its analysis of this “rule of interpretation,” the Justice Department has even more pointedly written: “Title II, however, also incorporates those provisions of titles I and III of the ADA that are not inconsistent with the regulations implementing section 504. Therefore, this part also includes appropriate provisions derived from the regulations implementing those titles.” 28 C.F.R. § 35.103, App. A, reprinted in, Arlene B. Mayerson, ed., Americans With Disabilities Act Annotated: Legislative History, Regulations & Commentary Title II - 25 (1997); see also H.R.Rep. No. 101-185 at 49-51 (1990), reprinted in 1990 U.S.C.C.A.N. 445, 472-74 (“Title II should be read to incorporate provisions of titles I and III which are not inconsistent with the regulations implementing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of *3911973_However, nothing in the other titles should be construed to lessen the standards in the Rehabilitation Act regulations which are incorporated by reference in Section 204.”); U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission & The Department of Justice, Americans with Disabilities Act Handbook 1-3 (1992) (“It is the intent of Congress that the regulations implementing the ADA be comprehensive and easily understood. Part 1630 [promulgated by the EEOC], therefore, defines terms not previously defined in the regulation implementing section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, such as “substantially limits ...” Where possible, part 1630 establishes parameters to serve as guidelines in such inquiries.”).
From these two statements, it is self-evident that the Department of Justice’s own “rule of interpretation” sanctions the use of regulations from a different title to help lend meaning to a concept that is not addressed in its own regulations, see note 2, supra, provided that the other regulations do not impose or permit a “lesser standard.” Here, the Title I regulation merely determines the appropriate characteristics—comparable training, skills, and abilities—of the persons within the general population against which a substantial limitation is measured in the context of the major life activity of working. The EEOC’s conclusion, therefore, does not provide a lesser standard. Moreover, it is perfectly consistent with the Rehabilitation Act, as well as Title II and the remedial nature of the ADA as a whole, and has a sound basis in logic. Thus, the Court’s invocation of the Title I regulations as a meaningful interpretive tool was consistent with general rules of statutory interpretation. See, e.g., Silverman v. Eastrich Multiple Investor Fund, 51 F.3d 28, 31 (3d Cir.1995) (explaining that there is “a basic tenet of statutory construction, equally applicable to regulatory construction, that a statute ‘should be construed so that effect is given to all of its provisions, so that no part will be inoperative or superfluous, void or insignificant, and so that one section will not destroy another unless the provision is the result of obvious mistake or error.’ ”) (citation omitted); Bower v. Federal Express Corp., 96 F.3d 200, 209-10 (6th Cir.1996) (arguing that the better choice is to use another regulation for interpretative guidance rather than interpret a term “without regulatory assistance”); Yeskoo v. United States, 34 Fed. Cl. 720, 734 (1996) (providing that “[i]n construing a statute, courts should attempt not to interpret a provision such that it renders other provisions of the same statute inconsistent, meaningless or superfluous-The meaning of statutory language depends on context, and a statute should be read as a whole.... Therefore, when reviewing the statute and regulations at issue in this ease, this court must construe each part of a statute in connection with all the other sections, so as to produce a harmonious whole. Moreover, common sense requires that the same words used twice in the same act should have the same meaning.”); United States v. Hayashi, 22 F.3d 859 (9th Cir.1993) (providing that a defendant can not be convicted under the regulations of a statute different from that under which he was indicted, but that nevertheless “a regulation implementing a different statute might aid in interpreting those under another statute.”); Price v. The National Board of Medical Examiners, 966 F.Supp. 419, 426 & n. 2 (S.D.W.Va.1997) (employing the Title I regulations in a Title II case, and explaining that “The EEOC guidelines do not govern [Title II] because the guidelines pertain only to Subchapter I. However, Congress clearly intended for the term ‘disability’ (and, therefore, the phrase ‘substantially limits’) to have a uniform meaning throughout the ADA. Accordingly, wherever possible, the Court must define the phrase ‘substantially limits’ in a manner consistent with each of the agencies’ interpretations.”); Medical Society of New Jersey v. Jacobs, 1993 WL 413016 (D.N.J. 1993) (importing Title I requirements into Title II context); Ellen S. v. Florida Board of Bar Examiners, 859 F.Supp. 1489 (S.D.Fla.1994) (applying Title I standard regarding pre-employment inquiries to Title II case involving bar application).
B. The Appropriateness of Invoking the Major Life Activity of Working
1. The Court Considered Other Major Life Activities First
As previously explained, the defendants do not directly challenge the Court’s *392reliance ’upon the Title I regulations. In fact, defendants invoke the Title I regulations promulgated by the EEOC as the correct test for assessing disability under the Act. (See Defs.’ Brief at 3). However, looking to the EEOC regulations, the defendants contend that the Court erred by analyzing plaintiff’s impairment as one which impacts the major life activity of working “without first determining whether [plaintiff’s impairment] substantially limits her ability to read or learn_” (Defs.’ Brief at 4).
Defendants seem to suggest that it only would have been appropriate for the Court to look to the major life activity of working if it first found that plaintiff was substantially limited in other major life activities. In fact, the reverse is true. If the Court had found, which it did not, that plaintiff was substantially limited in any other major life activity, it would have been prevented, by the EEOC analysis, to consider the effect of plaintiffs impairment on any other major life activity, and specifically the major life activity of working. If, however, as was the case, the Court found that plaintiff was not substantially limited in the other major life activities, it had a duty to see whether plaintiff was substantially limited in the major life activity of working. See 29 C.F.R. Pt. 1630, App., § 1630.2(j).
The interpretive guidance to the EEOC regulations clearly provide that:
If an individual is not substantially limited with respect to any other major life activity, the individual’s ability to perform, the major life activity of working should be considered. If an individual is substantially limited in any other major life activity, no determination should be made as to whether the individual is substantially limited in working.
29 C.F.R. Pt. 1630, App., § 1630.2© (emphasis added). In explaining why other major life activities should be considered before the major life activity of working, the EEOC has written:
Most of the discussion and analysis of substantial limitation has focused on its meaning as applied to the major life activity of working. This is largely because there has been little dispute about what is meant by such terms as “breathing” “walking” “hearing” or “seeing” but much dispute about what is meant by the term “working.” Consequently, the determination of whether a person’s impairment is substantially limiting should first address major life activities other than working. If it is clear that a person’s impairment substantially limits a major life activity other than working, then one need not determine whether the impairment substantially limits the person’s ability to work. On the other hand, if an impairment does not substantially limit any of the other major life activities, then one must determine whether the person is substantially limited in working.
For example, if an individual’s arthritis makes it unusually difficult (as compared to most people or to the average person in the general population) to walk, then the •individual is substantially limited in the ability to walk. In that ease, one would not need to ascertain whether the individual is also substantially limited in working. If, however, it was not clear whether the person’s impairment substantially limited his/her ability to walk (or to perform other major life activities), then one would have to analyze whether the impairment substantially limited the person’s ability to work.
EEOC Compliance Manual § 902 — Definition of the Term “Disability” — reprinted in Arlene B. Mayerson, Americans with Disabilities Act Annotated: Legislative History, Regulations & Commentary App.P. at p. 27 (1994) (emphasis added).
In its Opinion, the Court did the very analysis that defendants insist should have been done by the Court. The Court first considered whether plaintiff was “substantially limited” in her reading when compared to the average person in the general population. Finding that plaintiffs history of self accommodation enabled her to perform marginally as well as the average person in the general population, the Court concluded that plaintiff was not substantially limited when compared to this population. (See Opinion at 56 (stating that when plaintiff’s reading skills are compared to the average person in the *393general population, she would be considered “barely average.”)) Then, and only then, did the Court embark on its analysis of whether plaintiffs impairment substantially limited her ability to work. Using the benchmark of “the average person having comparable training, skills and abilities,” 29 C.F.R. § 1630.2(j)(3)(i), the Court found that plaintiff was substantially limited and therefore “disabled” under the law. There is nothing in the law, the regulations, or the EEOC guidance to suggest that this analysis was anything but appropriate.
2. The Appropriateness of Invoking the Major Life Activity of Working
Despite framing the bulk of their argument in terms of the Court’s purported failure to consider other major life activities before considering the major life activity of working, it appears that what actually troubles the defendants is that the major life activity of working was invoked at all. To this end, the defendants place tremendous (and almost exclusive) weight in their reconsideration memorandum on a case from the Southern District of West Virginia, Price et al. v. The National Board of Medical Examiners, 966 F.Supp. 419 (S.D.W.Va. June 6, 1997). Although the case and the arguments found therein have superficial appeal, especially as applied to the limited facts and legal argument before that court, upon closer examination they are revealed as unpersuasive authority for the issues before this Court.
Price involved a suit for injunctive relief brought by medical students who were seeking additional time and other accommodations on the medical licensing examination administered by the National Board of Medical Examiners. According to the opinion, medical students are required to pass “Step 1” of the examination before proceeding on in their medical school education. This factual context differs markedly from the instant case, of course, where the plaintiff has completed all of the necessary schooling required to practice as a lawyer and where the only obstacle remaining between her and the practice is her passing the bar examination.
After a limited evidentiary hearing (as opposed to the very lengthy trial and voluminous submissions in this case), the Price court found that the plaintiffs’ “history of significant scholastic achievement” id. at 427, in college and medical school evinced the fact that the plaintiffs were not substantially limited in their ability to learn as compared to “most unimpaired persons.” Id. at 425. Analyzing all of the plaintiffs’ impairments under the major life activity of learning (without any mention of the. major life activity of working), the Court found that the plaintiffs were “able to learn as well as or better than the average person in the general population.” Id. at 422. Hence, the court found that the plaintiffs were not disabled under the law.
Price differs from the instant case in an important factual respect. The Price plaintiffs all claimed they had Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (“ADHD”).3 Thus, their very claims went to their ability to learn, which was belied by their significant achievements in education. However, in the instant case, plaintiff’s so-called “learning”disability is in actuality a difficulty in reading words—not in learning per se. This is an important distinction because plaintiffs significant accomplishments in education do not belie her claim that she has significant difficulty reading.
In reaching its ultimate conclusion that the plaintiffs were not disabled, the Price Court raised the following concern:
The ADA is not designed “to allow individuals to advance to professional positions through a back door. Rather, it is aimed at rebuilding the threshold of a profession’s front door so that capable people with unrelated disabilities are not barred by that threshold alone from entering front door.” Jamie Katz & Janine Valles [sic], The Americans with Disabilities Act and Professional Licensing, 17 Mental & Physical Disability L.Rep. 556, 561 (Sept./Oet. 1993). If a court were to grant testing *394accommodations to persons that do not have disabilities within the meaning of the ADA, it would allow persons to advance to professional positions though the proverbial back door. In so undermining the integrity of the USMLE, .that court would hinder the Board’s ability to distinguish between qualified students and unqualified students.
Price, at 421-22. This argument is reminiscent of the defendants’ claims in the instant case. It is true that if nondisabled individuals were granted accommodations on the examination, the examination’s integrity would be compromised.4 What the defendants and the Price court fail to recognize, however, is the impact of measuring applicants’ impairments against inappropriate reference characteristics and how that practice would systematically result in persons with legitimate impairments being found not disabled under the Act, thereby seriously compromising the purpose of the Act, which is to employ disabled individuals to their fullest potential.
By measuring a disability for purposes of a professional examination against a reference population that would otherwise be totally unprepared and unqualified to take such an examination, the findings of such applicants’ disability is automatically skewed against a finding of disability. • The ADA and its dictates are highly context-specific. See, e.g., 29 C.F.R. Part 1680 App., § 1630.2(j) (“The determination of whether an individual has a disability is not necessarily based on the name or diagnosis of the impairment the person has, but rather on the effect of that impairment on the life of the individual.”). Therefore, one can not look to whether an individual is disabled, without considering in what context the individual might be “substantially limited.” For example, the EEOC Technical Assistance Manual provides:
An individual who had been employed as a reception-clerk sustained a back injury that resulted in considerable pain. The pain permanently restricted her ability to walk, sit, stand, drive, care for her home and engage in recreational activities. Another individual who had been employed as a general laborer has sustained a back injury, but was able to continue an active life, including recreational sports, and had obtained a new position as a security guard. The first individual was found by a court to be an individual with disabilities. The second individual was found not significantly restricted in any major life activity and therefore not an individual with a disability.
EEOC Technical Assistance Manual at II—4 to 5. Because context is a very important part of the ADA, it would be incongruous to examine a person’s impairments outside of the context in which the impairment affects their fives or livelihoods.
Hence, by failing to measure an applicant’s disability against the appropriate reference group—those engaging in that particular activity, or, in the words of the EEOC, those with “comparable training, skills and abilities”—applicants are placed in a horrific Catch 22. If an applicant strives hard enough to prove him or herself a “qualified individual” who has completed the prerequi*395sites for sitting for an examination and who is otherwise capable of performing within the profession, he or she is- — almost by definition and by the very nature of his or her accomplishments in graduate work — “average” when compared to the general population.
The bar and medical licensing examinations are not “average” tests geared to “average” persons, however. These sophisticated, professional tests are designed to challenge the analytical abilities of generally above-average achievers. Hence, by failing to employ the major life activity of working standard when a person’s entrance into a profession is at stake,5 courts deny applicants the opportunity to compete on a level playing field when there is no doubt that once the applicants were employed within the profession their disabilities would have to be recognized and accommodated under Title I.
This result is contrary to the remedial nature of the statute, and to Congress’ unequivocal desire to employ disabled individuals up to their full potential. See S.Rep. No. 101-116, at 9 (1989) (“Individuals with disabilities experience staggering levels of unemployment and poverty. According to a recent Lou Harris poll not working is perhaps the truest definition of what it means to be disabled in America.”). Although it can not be said that Dr. Bartlett is unemployed or unemployable, this does not assuage Congress’ apparent concern for the employment difficulties of the disabled in America.6 It is little consolation to tell disabled individuals that they can seek other forms of employ*396ment, but cannot seek employment in fields in which they studied for years. Understanding as it did the employment obstacles that the disabled face in this country, it could not have been Congress’s intent to exclude the disabled from participating in large classes of customary professions, such as medicine and the law, merely because they can not receive the accommodations on a licensing exam—accommodations which the law would require them to be given once they began work for an employer. Such a result would be abhorrent—the disabled would be relegated to some form of an underclass— able to practice in jobs that do not require licensing, but wholesale excluded from some of the most prestigious, lucrative, and rewarding professions in our society which do require licensing. Hence I find that the use of the major life activity of working standard and its comparison to the average person of comparable training, skills and abilities was appropriate and consistent with the spirit and letter of the Act.
II. Plaintiffs Purported Failure to State on Her Accommodation Application that She Was Impaired in Her Ability to Work
Finally, defendants argue that in order to recover damages under the Act, plaintiff was required to state on her accommodation application that she was disabled in the major life activity of working. Clearly, the law imposes no such obligation on the plaintiff in order to receive a remedy under the ADA. The major life activity of working is only part of a legal analysis which helps courts and investigators determine whether a given plaintiff is “substantially limited” and therefore “disabled” as that term is defined under the law. It is not a prerequisite to filing a complaint or to recovery.7 What these forms, and the ADA, require is that plaintiff list her impairment, not what it substantially limits.8 Plaintiffs impairment is a learning disability that manifests itself in a difficulty in reading and understanding the written word with automaticity; plaintiff expressed this clearly on her application. She was under no obligation to tell defendants more or to explain to defendants that they should consider some of her marginal reading skills in the context of the type of test at issue and the nature of the skills of the population taking the test. By relying exclusively upon an expert whose approach rejects the generally accepted discrepancy theory in identifying learning disabilities, defendants themselves chose to ignore the full context specific dictates of the ADA and Rehabilitation Act.
CONCLUSION
For the reasons discussed, defendants’ motion for reconsideration is DENIED.9
SO ORDERED.