People with mental retardation or psychiatric disabilities might also have communication difficulties in certain circumstances, such as registering, filling out applications for benefits...
Search Results "Mental Impairment"
-
E. Effective Communication
-
SERVICE ANIMALS
include guiding people who are blind or low vision, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person with mental...
-
V. PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
Police Response to People with Disabilities146 addresses law enforcement situations involving people who have mobility, speech, hearing, or vision disabilities, as well as people who have mental...
-
Fraud Reporting & Recovery Procedures: A Step-by-Step Action Plan That Actually Works
Fraud Reporting & Recovery Procedures work best when rehearsed mentally before they’re needed. Familiarity accelerates execution....
-
§35.130 General Prohibitions Against Discrimination
the regulation be amended to require training of law enforcement personnel to recognize the difference between criminal activity and the effects of seizures or other disabilities such as mental...
-
North Country Center for Independence (NCCI) - Plattsburgh, NY
We serve people of all ages and income levels, and people with any kind of physical or mental disabilities. What is Independent Living?...
-
National AgrAbility Project
term "disability" often brings to mind conditions such as spinal cord injuries and amputations, AgrAbility addresses not only these but also many other conditions, such as arthritis, back impairments...
-
Braille Authority of North America (BANA)
Past BANA Board Chair American Printing House for the Blind - Mary Nelle McLennan, Representative Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind & Visually Impaired...
-
Parent Asks for an Evaluation of the Student
In other words, when a school district conducts an evaluation for disability, it is important to consider that mitigating measures can treat the impairment, thereby obscuring the substantial...
-
Lighthouse Guild
Lighthouse Guild is the leading not-for-profit vision + healthcare organization, with a long-standing heritage of addressing the needs of people who are blind or visually impaired, including...
-
The Wayfindr Open Standard
We want to empower vision impaired people to navigate the world independently The Wayfindr Open Standard aims to do just that....
-
GENERAL AGREEMENT
examinations and disability-related inquiries of employees and applicants; (2) engaging in an interactive process to determine appropriate reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental...
-
Process of Determining the Appropriate Reasonable Accommodation
This process requires the individual assessment of both the particular job at issue, and the specific physical or mental limitations of the particular individual in need of reasonable accommodation...
-
Program Development Associates (PDA)
Topics benefiting human service providers working with adults in the community include social skills, sexuality, advocacy, mental health, workplace skills, aging and safety....
-
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD)
AAIDD, (formerly AAMR -- American Association on Mental Retardation) is the oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization of professionals and citizens concerned about intellectual and...
-
208.3.1 General
spaces shall be designed and marked for the exclusive use of those individuals who have a severe physical disability and have permanent or temporary mobility problems that substantially impair...
-
b. A written job description prepared before advertising or interviewing applicants for a job
Adaptive devices or computer software can enable a person without arms or a person with impaired vision to perform the essential functions of the job....
-
Section 1630.14(b) Employment Entrance Examination
An employment entrance examination then reveals that the applicant has a disabling impairment that, according to reasonable medical judgment that relies on the most current medical knowledge...
-
TTYs
According to these commenters, compliance with wheelchair access provisions greatly compromises their usability by the majority of persons with hearing or speech impairments who do not use...
-
§ 382.45 Passenger information
(c) Each carrier shall ensure that qualified individuals with a disability, including those with vision or hearing impairments, have timely access to information the carrier provides to...
-
11B-703.4.2 Location
Persons with visual impairments are trained to look in a consistent location for tactile signs. ...
-
Section 1193.33 Accessibility and usability
For persons with a visual impairment, four alternate formats exist: Braille, large print, electronic text, and audio cassette....
-
Can an employer consider health and safety when deciding whether to hire an applicant or retain an employee who has HIV or AIDS?
Having HIV or AIDS, however, might impair an individual’s ability to perform certain functions of a job, thus causing the individual to pose a direct threat to the health or safety of the...
-
Common Problems with Access to Programs, Generally
Voting: Consider the accessibility of voting machines to persons who have mobility impairments as well as those who are blind when acquiring new machines....
