The 30 inches minimum width is based on comments submitted by the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) regarding medical equipment dimensions in response to DOJ’s ANPRM on...
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Transfer Surface Size: Equipment Used by Patients in Supine, Prone, or Side-Lying Position (M301.2.2)
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Space Needs
Also there was a tendency for more subjects to position themselves to the right of the platform, than directly in front of or to the left of the platform....
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Database Development
By sliding the lines right or left, the operator can define a target population by manipulating the parameters of the environment, in this case occupied length of the device....
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Easterseals Delaware & Maryland's Eastern Shore
to physical rehabilitation and job training for people with disabilities, Easterseals offers a variety of services to help people with disabilities address life's challenges and achieve personal...
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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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Audio Description Associates Audio Description Services
elements of cultural events, the rich variety of colors, lighting effects, levels, gestures, and facial expressions that others often take for granted; critical bits of information that a person...
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CaptionCall Phone with Captioning Service
As a provision of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established a fund that gives individuals with hearing loss access to captioned...
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SPOKES Unlimited
Initially founded as a support group for persons with disabilities, their family and friends, SPOKES Unlimited grew into a full-fledged Center for Independent Living with the help of community...
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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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Leader Dogs for the Blind
In support of this mission, our actions are guided, supported and measured by our values: Do what is right Respect and compassion Passion for the work Superior experience Teamwork...
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Re: Tax Information for People with Disabilities A Complete and Simple Guide
With the right approach and careful editing, your evaluation essay can stand out academically....
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1. Job-Related
For example: A qualification standard for a secretarial job of "ability to take shorthand dictation" is not job-related if the person in the particular secretarial job actually transcribes...
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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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7. What is a reasonable modification?
Under Title II of the ADA and Section 504, child welfare agencies and courts must make changes in policies, practices, and procedures to accommodate the individual needs of a qualified person...
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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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Serving Counters
Self-service restaurants with a food service line must provide adequate maneuvering space for a person using a wheelchair to approach and move through the line, if doing so is readily achievable...
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4. On-board wheelchairs
In addition, the typically very confined spaces in lavatory units on these aircraft make their use by persons with limited mobility problematic....
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II-7.1000 Equally effective communication.
Even though the county believes that B has no personal or direct involvement in the courtroom proceedings at issue, the county must provide effective communication, which in this case may...
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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....
