or mental impairments that would previously have been found to constitute disabilities are not considered disabilities under the Supreme Court’s narrower standard.’’ 154 Cong....
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Sections 35.108(d)(1)(v) and 36.105(d)(1)(v)—Comparisons to Most People in the Population, and Impairment Need Not Prevent or Significantly or Severely Restrict a Major Life Activity
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19. Can an employer penalize an employee for work missed during leave taken as a reasonable accommodation?
An employee took five weeks of leave for treatment of his disability. The company cannot count those five weeks in determining whether to terminate this employee.(55) 53. Cf....
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§104.33(a) General
(a) General. A recipient that operates a public elementary or secondary education program or activity shall provide a free appropriate public education to each qualified handicapped...
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Grass Roots Activism
It began with the establishment of local groups to advocate for the rights of persons with disabilities."64 While the 1970s witnessed the creation of the disability rights movement, the...
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QUESTION: WHAT CONSIDERATIONS APPLY TO PVOs’ OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO PASSENGERS WITH DISABILITIES WITH RESPECT TO BOARDING AND DISEMBARKING FROM VESSELS?
39.83 QUESTION: WHAT CONSIDERATIONS APPLY TO PVOs’ OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO PASSENGERS WITH DISABILITIES WITH RESPECT TO BOARDING AND DISEMBARKING FROM VESSELS?...
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2. Am I allowed to keep my condition private?
When it is engaging in affirmative action for people with disabilities (such as an employer tracking the disability status of its applicant pool in order to assess its recruitment and hiring...
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Americans with Disabilities Act-Video overview
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Safety Assistants/Attendants
The use of this term is intended to emphasize that the only reason a carrier may require another person to travel with a passenger with a disability is safety....
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8.2 Overview of Legal Obligations
8.2 Overview of Legal Obligations An individual who is currently engaging in the illegal use of drugs is not an "individual with a disability" when the employer acts on the basis...
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What’s the difference between the Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
QUESTION: What’s the difference between the Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?...
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Questions & Answers: Supplement to the 2013 DOJ/DOT Joint Technical Assistance on the Title II of the ADA Requirements To Provide Curb Ramps when Streets, Roads, or Highways are Altered through Resurfacing
Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Disability Rights Section U.S....
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Section 1630.9 Not Making Reasonable Accommodation
An individual with a disability is “otherwise qualified,” in other words, if he or she is qualified for a job, except that, because of the disability, he or she needs a reasonable accommodation...
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2. What is the most integrated setting under the ADA and Olmstead in the context of a state and local government’s employment service system?
context, state and local employment service systems provide services and supports that allow people with disabilities to work....
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Sections 35.108(c) and 36.105(c)—Major Life Activities
Paragraph 2 of the definition of ‘‘disability’’ in the Department’s current title II and title III regulations at 28 CFR 35.104 and 36.104 states that ‘‘major life activities’’ means functions...
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Examples of Major Life Activities—Operations of a Major Bodily Function
Examples of Major Life Activities—Operations of a Major Bodily Function In the NPRM, the Department proposed revising the regulatory definitions of disability at §§ 35.108(c)(1)(ii) and...
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CASI California Survey Reports Acceptance Criteria - Field Tolerances AC 03-12
of purpose, this document identifies critical issues of code which must be addressed to assure that buildings, structures and related facilities are accessible to, and functional for, people...
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May a carrier charge a maintenance or cleaning fee to passengers who travel with service animals?
However, a carrier may charge passengers with a disability if a service animal causes damage, as long as it is its regular practice to charge non-disabled passengers for similar kinds of...
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Don’t tell me I can’t: disability in a modern world | Cheryl Stowe | TEDxFurmanU
After a devastating car crash left her in a wheelchair with an incomplete spinal cord injury, Cheryl Stowe tells how we can grow from our pain and be our own heroes. She even shows...
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Can an operator refuse to carry a person with a disability, especially a person using an electric scooter that meets the definition of a “wheelchair,” because of higher insurance rates or liability concerns?
Section 37.5(g) of the DOT ADA regulations prohibits an operator from denying service to an individual with a disability because its insurance company conditions coverage or rates on the...
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Can an operator refuse to carry a person with a disability, especially a person using an electric scooter that meets the definition of a “wheelchair,” because of higher insurance rates or liability concerns?
Section 37.5(g) of the DOT ADA regulations prohibits an operator from denying service to an individual with a disability because its insurance company conditions coverage or rates on the...
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6.2 Basic Requirements
However, to protect individuals with disabilities from actions based on such information that are not job-related and consistent with business necessity, including protection of health and...
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Rules of Construction for Major Life Activities
principles applicable to major life activities: ‘‘[i]n determining other examples of major life activities, the term ‘major’ shall not be interpreted strictly to create a demanding standard for disability...
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§ 382.49 Security screening of passengers
(a) Qualified individuals with a disability shall undergo security screening in the same manner, and be subject to the same security requirements, as other passengers....
