that as ‘‘research and practice bear out, dyslexia is just one of the specific learning disabilities that arise from ‘neurological differences in brain structure and function and affect a person’s...
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Sections 35.108(b) and 36.105(b)—Physical or Mental Impairment
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11B-202.3 Alterations
concluded that seismic strengthening work in an existing building constitutes a “building alteration, structural repair or addition” for purposes of providing access to the building for persons...
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Alliance of People with disAbilities - Seattle and Bellevue, WA
staff, and Board of Directors are individuals with different types of disAbilities, which allows us to show people we work with different methods of gaining independence that stem from our personal...
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United Nations Disability Statistics
The demand for statistics on human functioning and disability has greatly increased following the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981), the adoption of the United Nations World...
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Defining and Delivering Disability-Competent Care - The Individualized Plan of Care
This webinar was presented on October 29, 2013 before a live audience of healthcare providers and health plan staff who work with persons with disabilities. ...
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Bottom Dollars | A Rooted in Rights Original Documentary
“Bottom Dollars” is an hour long documentary that exposes the exploitation of people with disabilities through personal stories and expert interviews....
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TSA Cares: Passenger Support
Screening Assistance TSA Cares is a helpline that provides travelers with disabilities, medical conditions and other special circumstances additional assistance during the security screening...
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Beneficial Designs The Universal Trail Assessment Process (UTAP)
measure tread and clearance widths and the magnitude of obstacles, two clipboards to hold data sheets, preprinted marking flags, a roll of marking tape, a dictaphone and cassettes, a 2-3 person...
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c. Transfer Surface Size for Diagnostic Equipment Used by Patients in the Supine, Prone, or Side-lying Position
The MDE Advisory Committee reviewed evidence about transfer surface size to include: numerous video clips showing various transfers (both assisted and unassisted); industry exhibited tables...
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Features of the ETA Standard Barrier Survey/Barrier Management System [Title III]
The barriers are also all identified on a floor or site plan to simplify the program access verification analysis and to make sure the contractor or staff person who does the work can efficiently...
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Appendix One: List of References
Assistive Technology: The Official Journal of RESNA 22(1): 3 - 17. Paquet, V., and Feathers, D. (2004). An anthropometric study of manual and powered wheelchair users....
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Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council
Who we are A staff of five assists the all-volunteer Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council, which is made up of individuals with disabilities, family members, providers and...
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Easterseals New Jersey
advocacy and education in 21 counties throughout the state, Easterseals New Jersey offers a variety of programs to help people with various special needs address life’s challenges and achieve personal...
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6.4 Post-Offer Examinations and Inquiries Permitted
To determine that a person can perform a job without posing a "direct threat" to the health or safety of self or others....
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4. The assessment of risk must be based on objective medical or other evidence related to a particular individual
For example: An employer may not exclude a person with a vision impairment from a job that requires a great deal of reading because of concern that the strain of heavy reading may further...
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Section 1630.2(j)(1)(ix) Effects of an Impairment Lasting Fewer Than Six Months Can Be Substantially Limiting
Hoyer-Sensenbrenner Statement at 3 (“[T]here is no need for the transitory and minor exception under the first two prongs because it is clear from the statute and the legislative history that a person...
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After January 26, 1992
After January 26, 1992 Any facility built or altered after January 26, 1992, must be “readily accessible to and usable by” persons with disabilities.27 For ADA compliance purposes, any...
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Typical examples of reasonable accommodations are:
Flexible scheduling at a retail store or restaurant, so a sales clerk or cashier with PTSD can attend counseling sessions or an employee with a spinal cord injury who has a lengthy personal...
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General
having between twenty-five percent (25%) and one hundred percent (100%) of their limited parking area unavailable to their customers because they are reserved for the exclusive use of persons...
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A. Advance Planning
For example, if a person’s health will be jeopardized without access to life-sustaining medication that must be refrigerated, an emergency shelter will be of little use to him unless he...
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B. The 2010 Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Captioning and Video Description
The 2010 ANPRM used the term “video description” to refer to the provision of descriptive information about a movie to persons who are blind or have low vision....
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Issue: Self-Evaluation and Transition Plans
If a city that employs 50 or more persons decides to make structural changes to achieve program access, it must develop a transition plan that identifies those changes and sets a schedule...
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F234 Residential Facilities
The vast majority of comments, most of which were from persons with disabilities, opposed such a provision....
