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Expanding Your Market: Maintaining Accessible Features in Retail Establishments
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II-4.1000 General
Beginning January 26, 1992, title II prohibits all public entities, regardless of size of workforce, from discriminating in their employment practices against qualified individuals with disabilities...
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I don’t want to discriminate against patients with disabilities, but I don’t want my staff to injure their backs by lifting people who use wheelchairs onto exam tables. If my nurse has a bad back, then she doesn’t have to help lift a patient, does she?
Q I don’t want to discriminate against patients with disabilities, but I don’t want my staff to injure their backs by lifting people who use wheelchairs onto exam tables....
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Defining and Delivering Disability-Competent Care - The Individualized Plan of Care
This is the fifth webinar in Webinar Series #1, "Leading Healthcare Practices and Training: Defining and Delivering Disability-Competent Care". ...
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B. Ticketing:
PSE shall ensure that its ticketing and pricing policies, practices, and procedures for events at The Palace afford individuals with disabilities the opportunity to participate in,...
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Concerns about Safety
Instead, the employer should evaluate each individual on her skills, knowledge, experience, and how the hearing disability affects her....
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1. Before making a job offer
At this stage, an employer: may ask questions about an applicant's ability to perform specific job functions; may not make an inquiry about a disability; may make...
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9. Is the ADA limited to segregation in employment settings when the same individuals are also subject to segregation in other settings during the day, like facility-based day programs?
If individuals with disabilities are unnecessarily segregated in sheltered workshops for part of the day and in segregated facility-based day programs for other parts of the day or week,...
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Medical Certificate and a Passenger with a Communicable Disease or Infection
[Sec. 382.53(c)(2)] In the event that you determine the need for a medical certificate, you should indicate to the passenger with a disability the reason for the request....
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1. Q: What is the ADA?
A: The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a Federal civil rights law....
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Issues Related to the Interactive Process and Return to Work
Example 15: An employee with a disability has been out on leave for three months....
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ADA Technical Assistance Manual Addendum (10/29/02)
ADA TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE MANUAL ADDENDUM Notice Concerning The Americans With Disabilities Act Amendments Act Of 2008 The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Amendments Act of...
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Design Features and Accommodations for those with Depression, PTSD, & Other Mental Health Conditions in the Workplace
Postpartum depression is considered a disability, and employers are responsible to provide accommodations in these situations....
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II-3.2000 Denial of participation.
government office cannot refuse to issue food stamps or other benefits to an individual on the basis of his or her race, it cannot refuse to provide benefits solely because an individual has a disability...
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Complaints
Complaints Be aware that a Complaint Resolution Official (CRO) must be made available to you if you ask to speak with a manager or supervisor about a disability-related complaint....
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Issue: "Grandfather" Clause or Small Entity Exemption
that a “grandfather” clause or a small entity exemption shields them from complying with Title II of the ADA, they fail to take steps to provide program access or to make modifications to policies...
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Auxiliary Aids and Services
Most of the information is not tactile or provided in an alternate way for individuals with disabilities and the tactile experiences currently available for some exhibits are limited in...
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Emergency Evacuation Preparedness: Take Responsibility for Your Safety
A Harris Interactive survey commissioned by the National Organization on Disability, December 2001, found that "50 percent of employees with disabilities say no plans have been made to safely...
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FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION
Title II of the ADA provides in pertinent part: "[N]o qualified individual with a disability shall, by reason of such disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits...
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§382.51(b)(2)
any combination of facility accessibility, auxiliary aids, equipment, the assistance of personnel, or other appropriate means consistent with the safety and dignity of passengers with a disability...
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1. Snow and Ice
a passenger's request for a paratransit driver to walk over a pathway that has not been fully cleared of snow and ice should be granted so that the driver can help the passenger with a disability...
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The 10 Commandments for Communicating with People who Have Disabilities Video
The 10 Commandments for Communicating with People who Have Disabilities (Source: National Center for Access Unlimited)....
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§382.143 When must carriers complete training for their personnel?
[Doc. No. DOT-OST-2004-19482, 73 FR 27665, May 13, 2008, as amended at 74 FR 11472, Mar. 18, 2009]
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Accessible parking
• Many older adults with diminished heart and lung functions and reduced mobility will have placards or license plates for accessible parking. When parking is near the main door of...
