PSAPs should train their call takers to effectively recognize and process TTY calls. Providing appropriate equipment is only as effective as your staff training. The ADA does not...
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7. Training Call Takers to Respond Effectively to TTY Calls
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Staff Training
A critical and often overlooked component of ensuring successful compliance is comprehensive and ongoing staff training. You may have established good policies, but if your staff are...
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G. 911 EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS
Within three (3) months of the entry of this Consent Decree, the County will ensure that each of its 911 consoles or call stations can receive and respond to TTY communications...
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§1630.4(a)(1)(vii)
(vii) Selection and financial support for training, including: apprenticeships, professional meetings, conferences and other related activities, and selection for leaves of absence...
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§1630.15 Defenses.
[56 FR 35734, July 26, 1991, as amended at 76 FR 17003, Mar. 25, 2011] Defenses to an allegation of discrimination under this part may include, but are not limited to, the...
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Access to Approach, Enter, and Exit Work Areas
Access for “approach, entry, and exit” requires a connecting accessible route to the work area and a compliant entrance, including entry doors or gates, plus wheelchair space in the...
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G. 911 EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS
22. Within three (3) months of the entry of this Consent Decree, the County will ensure that each of its 911 consoles or call stations can receive and respond to TTY communications...
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C. Training
Prior to each election during the term of this Agreement, the County will provide training to Highway Department personnel on how to implement the temporary...
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2. What is the most integrated setting under the ADA and Olmstead in the context of a state and local government’s employment service system?
competitive integrated employment settings.17 An example of a competitive integrated employment setting is work on a full- or part-time basis, at minimum wage or above, at a location where the employee...
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Areas of a public entity open to the public, participants in services, programs, or activities, or invitees. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities: Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices...
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3.7 How Does an Employer Determine What Is a Reasonable Accommodation?
For example: A small employer believed it necessary to install a special lower drinking fountain for an employee using a wheelchair, but the employee indicated that he could use the existing...
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45 CFR Part 92 Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities; Final Rule
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Office of the Secretary 45 CFR Part 92 RIN 0945–AA02 Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities AGENCY: Office for Civil...
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16. I will never hire a disabled person, so I don’t have to comply with any accessibility requirements.
This is why these laws require commercial facilities built after passage of the ADA provide physical access to employee and common use areas of the facility and require business owners to...
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11B-208.2.1 Hospital outpatient facilities
If there are separate lots for visitors or patients and employees, the 10% or 20% requirement shall be applied to the visitor/patient lot while accessible parking could be provided in the...
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11B-208.2.1 Hospital outpatient facilities
If there are separate lots for visitors or patients and employees, the 10% or 20% requirement shall be applied to the visitor/patient lot while accessible parking could be provided in the...
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11B-208.2.1 Hospital outpatient facilities
If there are separate lots for visitors or patients and employees, the 10% or 20% requirement shall be applied to the visitor/patient lot while accessible parking could be provided in the...
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3.4 Some Basic Principles of Reasonable Accommodation
If an employee whose job requires driving loses her sight, reassignment to a vacant position that does not require driving would be a reasonable accommodation, if the employee is qualified...
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Accessible Pittsburgh: Disability Mentoring Day
Published on June 4, 2015 Updated video on Disability Mentoring Day
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Put Your Abilities to Work: A Student's Guide to the Workforce Recruitment Program. Hosted by Lauren Karas
Learn about the Workforce Recruitment Program (WRP) and how it can be an employment resource for you! The WRP seeks qualified students with disabilities to participate in a referral...
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Put Your Abilities to Work: A Student's Guide to the Workforce Recruitment Program. Hosted by Patrick Cokley
Learn about the Workforce Recruitment Program (WRP) and how it can be an employment resource for you! The WRP seeks qualified students with disabilities to participate in a referral...
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17. May an employer apply a "no-fault" leave policy, under which employees are automatically terminated after they have been on leave for a certain period of time, to an employee with a disability who needs leave beyond the set period?
If an employee with a disability needs additional unpaid leave as a reasonable accommodation, the employer must modify its "no-fault" leave policy to provide the employee with the additional...
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21. How should an employer handle leave for an employee covered by both the ADA and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?
An employer must continue an employee's health insurance benefits during his/her leave period only if it does so for other employees in a similar leave status....
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Provider knowledge
As we see in Jack’s story above, a provider’s lack of knowledge is one barrier to accessing health care for patients with physical disabilities....
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4.1.6(1)(k)(i)
an altered facility that is less than three stories or has less than 3,000 square feet per story unless the building is a shopping center, a shopping mall, the professional office of a health...
