Ensure that eligibility criteria do not unnecessarily screen out or tend to screen out people with disabilities – e.g., requiring a driver’s licence excludes people who, because of their...
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I. Steps to Ensure Access for All in Emergencies and Disasters
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9. What steps are child welfare agencies required to take to ensure that parents and prospective parents with disabilities involved with the child welfare system have an equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from their programs and activities?
475 of the Social Security Act provides that the child welfare agency is required to file a petition to terminate parental rights when the child is in foster care for the preceding 15 out...
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Service Animals
Public entities may also exclude service animals if the animal is out of control and the handler does not regain control; the animal is not housebroken; or the animal poses a direct threat...
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4.1 Research
The authors also point out that the use of an amplified telecoil provides a significant improvement in hearing aid performance compared to conventional telecoils....
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ENSURING LANGUAGE ACCESS AND EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION DURING RESPONSE AND RECOVERY: A CHECKLIST FOR EMERGENCY RESPONDERS
Reach out to Centers for Independent Living (CILs), your state Developmental Disabilities Council, your state’s Protection and Advocacy Agency, as well as organizations serving deaf/hard...
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3. Camera
At the end of your survey day, either print out your photos and label them carefully or create a detailed photo log while reviewing the photos on a computer....
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Introduction
These examples are used only to illustrate the particular point or principle to which they relate in the text and should not be taken out of context as statements of EEOC policy that would...
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How to Use This Manual
Looks at the definitions of "an individual with a disability" and a "qualified individual with a disability," drawing upon guidance set out in EEOC's Title I regulation and interpretive...
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100% Healed Policies
Example 13: A clerk has been out on medical leave for 16 weeks for surgery to address a disability....
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§35.160 General
for equal participation and opportunity to benefit from any governmental service, program, or activity, such as reviewing public documents, examining demonstrative evidence, and filling out...
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M303.2.4 Equipment Clearances (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Therefore, in the final rule the Access Board has separated out the knee and toe clearance requirements into two provisions; breast platforms and other equipment....
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New Requirements for Assistive Listening Systems (ALS)
Add the number of additional receivers to the minimum number required: 55+3= 58 receivers Calculate the number of hearing-aid compatible receivers. (1 out...
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(C) NYCT’s interpretation of the ADA and DOT’s implementing regulations is too narrow.
The relevant ADAAG requirement cited by NYCT, as set forth in § 206.2.3.1 of Appendix B to 36 CFR Part 1191, merely lays out one situation in which a public entity must provide an accessible...
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Benefits
By requiring a means to control at least one source of lighting in bedrooms from the bed, individuals with mobility disabilities will be able to safely transfer in and out of bed....
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The Market of Travelers Who Benefit from Accessibility
of the total U.S. discretionary income is controlled by those 50 years and older. (7) The Deloitte Research study, "Wealth With Wisdom: Serving the Needs of Aging Consumers," points out...
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7.4 Legal and Regulatory Considerations
In addition, later DOJ regulations may lay out limited circumstances where “equivalent facilitation” is permissible under the Americans with Disabilities Act....
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4.1.3 Adjustable Height Chairs with and without Footplates
Some knee break chairs available in the market today have a total length of around 60”; with the addition of a flip-up or slide out footrest/leg rest extension, this total length increases...
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A. Statutory and rulemaking history
Section 204 (a) of title II and section 306(b) of title III direct the Attorney General to promulgate regulations to carry out the provisions of titles II and III, other than certain provisions...
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5.1.1 Transfer Surface Height Adjustability Recommendation for M301 and M302
heights from underneath the buttocks at the center of the occupied seats, a spot likely to be lower than the front of the seat where a person transfers.FF Some Committee members pointed out...
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42. May an employer tell other employees that an individual is receiving a reasonable accommodation when employees ask questions about a coworker with a disability?
The employer also may find it helpful to point out that many of the workplace issues encountered by employees are personal, and that, in these circumstances, it is the employer's policy...
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Issue 15: How can the potential conflict between the goals of zero net energy and accessibility for low vision persons be resolved?
going to be the wave of the future is finding ways of creating less efficient facilities by decentralizing, in order to reduce the energy consumption in a hospital, for example, is to move out...
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The Revised Guidelines (2004 ADAAG)
Part I of the 2004 ADAAG provides scoping requirements for facilities subject to the ADA; scoping is a term used in the 2004 ADAAG to describe requirements (set out in Parts I and II) that...
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The Revised Guidelines (2004 ADAAG)
Part I of the 2004 ADAAG provides so-called "scoping" requirements for facilities subject to the ADA; "scoping" is a term used in the 2004 ADAAG to describe requirements (set out in Parts...
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§35.160 General (Section-by-Section Analysis)
for equal participation and opportunity to benefit from any governmental service, program, or activity, such as reviewing public documents, examining demonstrative evidence, and filling out...