From the Author's Introduction: "This booklet contains the experience and observations I have gained over many years as a cane traveler....
Search Results "Administrative Authority"
2010 ADA Definition
Administrative Authority: A governmental agency that adopts or enforces regulations and guidelines for the design, construction, or alteration of buildings and facilities.
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Care and Feeding of the Long White Cane: Instructions in Cane Travel for Blind People by Thomas Bickford
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CCDA (California Commission on Disability Access) Accessibility Construction Inspection Checklist
The CCDA is authorized by California Government Code Sections 8299- 8299.11 to provide educational material and information to assist trained building code officials/building inspectors...
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The Mighty
I read this headline and it could have come from my very lips…I wanted to say thank you – words can never express how truly grateful I am to the author for sharing her story, for all Mighty...
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FREED Center for Independent Living - Grass Valley, Marysville, CA
FREED’s funders include Agency on Aging Area 4, California Department of Rehabilitation, US Administration of Community Living, SCAN Foundation, Dignity Health Foundation, Mental Health...
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The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
DOJ is the only federal entity with the authority to initiate ADA litigation against state and local governments for employment violations under Title I of the ADA and for all violations...
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Coordination of Overlapping Federal Requirements
The ADA directs the agencies with enforcement authority for these legal requirements to coordinate their activities to prevent duplication and avoid conflicting standards....
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NOTICE UNDER THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
The ADA does not require the [name of public entity] to take any action that would fundamentally alter the nature of its programs or services, or impose an undue financial or administrative...
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VI. Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Small Business Administration, Table of Small Business Size Standards Matched to North American Industry Classification System Codes at 28 (July 14, 2014), available at https://www.sba.gov...
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More Steps Toward Access
Title III of the ADA authorizes the Department of Justice to certify that State laws, local building codes, or similar ordinances meet or exceed the ADA Standards for Accessible Design for...
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Resources for Web Developers
This report is available at www.usdoj.gov/crt/508/report/content.htm, and The General Services Administration hosts an online course for web developers interested in accessible web...
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Historic Preservation Programs
physical access would threaten or destroy the historic significance of an historic property, or would result in a fundamental alteration in the nature of the program or in undue financial and administrative...
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§35.170 Complaints
individual who believes that he or she or a specific class of individuals has been subjected to discrimination on the basis of disability by a public entity may, by himself or herself or by an authorized...
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Executive Summary
Access Board), in consultation with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to issue accessibility standards for medical diagnostic equipment (MDE) to accommodate adults with disabilities...
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10. How quickly must an employer respond to a request for reasonable accommodation?
The supervisor does not act on the request and does not forward it to someone with authority to respond. The employee makes a second request to the supervisor....
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Undue Hardship
The legislative history discusses financial, administrative, and operational limitations on providing reasonable accommodations only in the context of defining "undue hardship."...
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29. Does reassignment mean that the employee is permitted to compete for a vacant position?
Cir. 1998) (the court, in interpreting a collective bargaining agreement provision authorizing reassignment of disabled employees, states that "[a]n employee who is allowed to compete for...
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Letter from The Assistant Secretary
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY Dear Superintendents and Other School Administrators: Thank you for the essential...
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Retaliation
Federal civil rights laws.145 Discriminatory practices are often only raised and remedied when students, parents, teachers, coaches, and others can report such practices to school administrators...
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Integration of inmates and detainees with disabilities. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Question 48: The Department is particularly interested in hearing from prison administrators and from the public about the potential effect of the assignment scheme proposed here on inmates...
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Safety
Part 382 does not require or authorize you to disregard FAA safety regulations....
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Section 610 Review
The Department has consulted with the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy about this process....
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Acknowledgements
The author gratefully acknowledges the valuable and generous time contributions of these subject matter experts and reviewers as well as many others who chose not to be not listed:...
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Background
Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration have for years been conducting research on various stabilizers and other products as possible uses for trail stabilization....
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Attachment A
The ADA does not require the City of Waukegan to take any action that would fundamentally alter the nature of its programs or services, or impose an undue financial or administrative burden...
