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National Resource Center on ADHD
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Western Resources for Independent Living (WRIL) - Rapid City and Pierre, SD
This motivates us to achieve immediate and long-term solutions by assisting individuals with finding affordable and accessible housing, equipping a home with assistive technologies, or enhancing...
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Rebuilding Together Houston - Houston, TX
In doing so, we more than doubled the value of every dollar donated and reinvested in more than $4.7 million of affordable local housing....
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Rebuilding Together El Paso - El Paso, TX
Our mission is to preserve and revitalize houses and communities, assuring that low income homeowners, particularly those who are elderly and disabled, live in warmth, safety, and independence...
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Independent Living Resource Center of San Francisco (ILRCSF) - San Francisco, CA
Specifically ILRCSF programs and services include Information & Referrals services, Assistive Technology education and support, Peer Counseling, System Change Advocacy, Housing Counseling...
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New Bionics Let Us Run, Climb and Dance | Hugh Herr | TED Talks
both legs in a climbing accident 30 years ago; now, as the head of the MIT Media Lab's Biomechatronics group, he shows his incredible technology in a talk that's both technical and deeply personal...
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Love Story: Seeing Beyond the Disability! | Elizabeth Wampler & Stephen Wampler | TEDxCincinnati
He became the first person in the world with cerebral palsy to climb the face of El Capitan Mountain in Yosemite National Park....
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Video Caption Corporation Closed Captioning and Subtitling Services
Unlike many other closed captioning companies, our captioning is done in-house from start to finish – from transcription to encoding – allowing us to offer our clients fast turnarounds,...
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413.1.1 Caption Controls (Section-by-Section Analysis)
While the Board believes that proposed 413.1.1 would greatly benefit persons who are deaf or hard of hearing, we did not monetize the benefits or costs of providing caption controls on covered...
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ADA INFORMATION RESOURCES
Department of Education to provide ADA technical assistance to businesses, States and localities, and persons with disabilities....
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Accessible Route to Goods and Services
Accessible Route to Goods and Services The path a person with a disability takes to enter and move through your business is called an “accessible route.”...
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Public Address Systems
Where public address systems are provided in transportation facilities to convey public information, a means of conveying the same or equivalent information to persons who are deaf or hard...
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5.5(c) Exception for Federal Contractors Covered by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and Other Federal Programs Requiring Identification of Disability
Pre-employment inquiries about disabilities may be necessary under these laws to identify disabled applicants or clients in order to provide the required special services for such persons...
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XII. Examinations and Courses
applications, licensing, certification, or credentialing for secondary or postsecondary education, professional, or trade purposes) must either be given in a place and manner accessible to persons...
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3. How and where should the notice be provided?
Some Ways to Provide Notice to Interested Persons Include the notice with job applications Publish the notice periodically in local newspapers Broadcast the notice...
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ADA Requirements - Testing Accommodations
ensures that individuals with disabilities have the opportunity to fairly compete for and pursue such opportunities by requiring testing entities to offer exams in a manner accessible to persons...
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General Regulatory Approach
Many of these commenters said they preferred a more general approach, in which an overall objective of nondiscrimination and service to persons with disabilities was stated, with the details...
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Volume Control on Public Phones
Comments from persons who are hard of hearing sought an increase in the number of phones required to have volume control....
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382.119 What information must carriers give individuals with vision or hearing impairment on aircraft?
information includes, but is not limited to, information concerning flight safety, procedures for takeoff and landing, flight delays, schedule or aircraft changes that affect the travel of persons...
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Diagonal Curb Ramps
Comments advised that this space should be provided outside active traffic lanes of the roadway so that persons traversing the ramp are not in the way of oncoming traffic from either direction...
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11B-206.3 Location
ramps, elevators, or other circulation devices, fare vending or other ticketing areas, and fare collection areas shall be placed to minimize the distance which wheelchair users and other persons...
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Medical Examinations
The ADA prohibits an employer from discriminating against a person with a disability who is "qualified" for a desired job....
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9.5 Do the ADA's Pre-Employment Inquiry and Confidentiality Restrictions Prevent an Employer from Filing Second Injury Fund Claims?
., an employer may make such medical inquiries and require a medical examination after a conditional offer of employment, and before a person starts work, so long as the examination or inquiry...
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D. Paperwork Reduction Act
Additionally, an agency may not impose a penalty on persons for violating information collection requirements when an information collection required to have a current OMB control number...
