An employer is only allowed to ask medical questions (including questions about mental health) in four situations: When you ask for a reasonable accommodation (see Question 3)....
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2. Am I allowed to keep my condition private?
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Equal Opportunity
A public health clinic requires patients with mental illness to come for check-ups after all other patients have been seen, based on an assumption that these patients’ behavior will be disturbing...
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MAKING VOTER REGISTRATION ACCESSIBLE TO ALL
The ADA also prohibits a state from categorically disqualifying all individuals who have intellectual or mental health disabilities from registering to vote or from voting because of their...
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7. Q: Our center specializes in "group child care." Can we reject a child just because she needs individualized attention?
For instance, if a child with Down Syndrome and significant mental retardation applies for admission and needs one-to-one care to benefit from a child care program, and a personal assistant...
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Employee Training
must also train employees who deal with the traveling public regarding awareness and appropriate responses to individuals with a disability, including individuals with physical, sensory, mental...
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Section 36.103 Relationship to Other Laws (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
disability seeks damages under a State law that allows compensatory and punitive damages for discrimination on the basis of physical disability, but does not allow them on the basis of mental...
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§35.103 Relationship to other laws (Section-by-Section Analysis)
a physical disability could seek damages under a State law that allows compensatory and punitive damages for discrimination on the basis of physical disability, but not on the basis of mental...
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II. COORDINATION AND OVERSIGHT
DOJ shall approve or reject the proposed individual within 15 days of its receipt of the proposed individual’s qualifications....
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8.3 Illegal Use of Drugs
The illegal use of drugs does not include drugs taken under supervision of a licensed health care professional, including experimental drugs for people with AIDS, epilepsy, or mental illness...
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Issue: Local Laws, Ordinances, and Regulations
For example, a municipal ordinance banning animals from city health clinics may need to be modified to allow a blind individual who uses a service animal to bring the animal to a mental...
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Words
Affirmative Phrases Negative Phrases person with an intellectual, cognitive, developmental disability retarded; mentally defective...
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Scenario 2 – Suspected Disability & Involvement of Knowledgeable People
Staff should seek an evaluation to determine whether Robert has a physical or mental impairment that is interfering with his ability to stay awake....
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§8.3 Qualified individual with handicaps
For example, a chronically mentally ill person whose particular condition poses a significant risk of substantial interference with the safety or enjoyment of others or with his or her own...
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EMPLOYMENT
will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant or employee with a disability upon request unless the accommodation would cause...
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APPENDIX A GENERAL POLICY OF NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF DISABILITY
Individuals with disabilities can include, for example, individuals who are blind or deaf, or who have a mobility impairment, HIV, learning impairment, or mental health impairment. ...
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Introduction
standards, criteria, or other methods of administration that have the effect of discrimination on the basis of disability; (4) not making reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental...
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18. Q: Procedures at my office require citizens to fill out forms when reporting crimes. What if the person has a vision disability, a learning disability, mental retardation or some other disability that may prevent the person from filling out a form?
A: The simplest solution is to have an officer or clerk assist the person in reading and filling out the form. Police officers have probably been doing this for years. The form...
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Contours of Disability in America
individual achievement were custodial institutions for those who did not “fit” with the American creed: persons with sensory impairments, reduced cognitive capacities, physical impairments, mental...
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7.3 Nondiscrimination in all Employment Practices
an employee or applicant should be based on objective factual evidence about the particular individual, not on assumptions or stereotypes about the individual's disability; the qualifications...
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Appoint an ADA Coordinator
Job Qualifications Familiarity with the state or local government’s structure, activities, and employees....
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Section 36.103 Relationship to Other Laws (Section-By-Section Analysis and Response to Comments)
disability seeks damages under a State law that allows compensatory and punitive damages for discrimination on the basis of physical disability, but does not allow them on the basis of mental...
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2. The specific risk must be identified
If the perceived risk to health or safety arises from the behavior of an individual with a mental or emotional disability, the employer must identify the specific behavior that would pose...
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How is a charge of discrimination filed?
., the physical or mental impairment and how it affects major life activities, the record of disability the employer relied upon, or how the employer regarded the individual as disabled)...
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‘‘direct threat’’
Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control, and the National Institutes of Health, including the National Institute of Mental Health....