TTYs & Telephone Relay Services A TTY is a device that is used in conjunction with a telephone to communicate with persons who are deaf, who are hard of hearing, or who have speech...
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Effective Communication Provisions
In a retail setting, pointing to product information or writing notes back and forth to answer simple questions about a product may allow a person who is deaf to decide whether to purchase...
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23. Q: What types of modifications in law enforcement policies, practices, and procedures does the ADA require?
Example: A department modifies its regular practice of handcuffing arrestees behind their backs, and instead handcuffs deaf individuals in front in order for the person to sign or write...
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B. Proposed 255 Guidelines
This proposed requirement would allow people who are deaf or hard of hearing to have faster and more natural conversations than the current text-messaging functionality....
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Introduction
The ADA Standards are designed to make lodging facilities usable by persons with a wide variety of disabilities, including persons who are blind or who have low vision, persons who are deaf...
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Electronic and information technology (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
In addition, the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) requested that public address systems, alarm systems, and two-way communications systems such as intercoms be expressly included as...
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II-7.1100 Primary consideration
Some individuals who were deaf at birth or who lost their hearing before acquiring language, for example, use sign language as their primary form of communication and may be uncomfortable...
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Phase II: Energy and Commerce & Public Works and Transportation Committees
Karen Peltz-Strauss and Sy Dubow were the principal attorneys from the deaf community who worked with congressional staff....
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Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) Vocational Rehabilitation (VR)
VR is a state and federally sponsored program which assists people with all types of disabilities, with the exception of Blindness or Deaf-Blindness, in all areas of the state....
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Section 36.303(g)(2) General
In such a situation, the movie theater should take steps to maximize the range of movie options for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing, or blind or have low vision, by dispersing...
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Section 36.303(g)(6) Alternative Technologies
One commenter who supported an open-movie-captioning requirement asserted that 95 percent of the deaf and hard of hearing community prefers open movie captioning to the use of captioning...
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REMEDIAL ACTION
this Agreement, H&R Block, H&R Block Tax Services, and HRB will provide, upon request, at all H&R Block, H&R Block Tax Services, and HRB locations, to individuals who are deaf...
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IV. RESOLVING ADA COMPLAINTS THROUGH MEDIATION
A wheelchair user can now shop at the local grocery store because there is a ramp, a citizen who is deaf can testify at a county hearing because there is a sign language interpreter, and...
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Section 1194.24 Video and Multimedia Products (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
The NPRM limited the provision for captioning to productions that were procured or developed for repeated showings to audiences that may include people who are deaf or hard of hearing....
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Access to Health Care for People with Disabilities
Ethics Matters: A publication of the Donnelley Family Disability Ethics Program Access to Health Care for People with Disabilities © Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago 2009....
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4. Benefits—Qualitative Discussion of Benefits
If all movie theaters are accessible to those who are deaf or hard of hearing, or blind or have low vision, then some persons will now have greater choice among multiple locations and can...
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Request for Clarification and Extension of Comment Period
the American Council of the Blind (ACB) and American Foundation of the Blind (AFB), Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD), a joint submission by the National Association of the Deaf...
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Service Animals
Many individuals who are deaf use dogs to alert them to sounds. People with mobility disabilities often use dogs to pull their wheelchairs or retrieve items....
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Scoping
The number of guest rooms accessible to individuals with mobility disabilities and the number accessible to persons who are deaf or who are hard of hearing in the 2010 Standards are consistent...
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The Presentation Area / Speaker’s Platform Design and Considerations
Space for a qualified interpreter for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing should be included in all plans, and seating nearest interpreters should be reserved for individuals using those...
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Some Lessons
People with blindness fought the battles of those who used wheelchairs; persons with epilepsy fought the battles of those with deafness....
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II. ENFORCING THE ADA PART 2
patient, or her husband, who is also deaf, during Mrs....
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ADA25: #3 of 25 -- Title I
Reasonable accommodations pertaining to deaf and hard of hearing employees include: qualified interpreters, CART, Videophone, TTY, visual alerts, transcribers/notetakers. ...
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Accessible Voting Technology Initiative
This project will address the needs of voters with different types of disabilities, including individuals with: Sensory disability (blindness, low vision, hearing loss, and deafness...
