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Protect Your Career with a Professional Home Office Signal
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B. Carrier-Supplied Oxygen
There is no hard and fast rule about what is or is not an “undue burden.”...
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Social Security Administration Guide: Alternate Text for Images
Electronic and hard copies should not be modified from this source material without the express and prior written permission from the Social Security Administration....
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What was measured and why?
., how hard the individual’s lungs are breathing, and heart is pumping)....
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Some Examples of Alternative Test Formats and Accommodations
Alternative Test Formats and Accommodations: Substituting a written test for an oral test (or written instructions for oral instructions) for people with impaired speaking or hearing...
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B. State Agencies Performing Oversight Responsibilities
Nor are they required to conduct hearings....
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A Note on Language and Terms
One might hear the phrase, "the disability community," and think that all people with disabilities use a common language to define themselves and one another, as well as the various accommodations...
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Using Qualified Interpreters
Many people with hearing and speech disabilities use sign language as their primary means of communication and use interpreters to communicate with people who don’t sign....
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Are You Protected by The ADA?
A substantial impairment is one that significantly limits or restricts a major life activity such as hearing, seeing, speaking, walking, breathing, performing manual tasks, caring for oneself...
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Paragraph (d) (Advisory Guidance)
For the use of voice carry-over, where the person can speak but not hear, the user needs to be able to turn the microphone on to speak and off to allow them to receive the TTY text replies...
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Section 37.61 Public Transportation Programs and Activities in Existing Facilities
schedules, of edge detection on rail platforms, adequate lighting, telecommunication display devices (TDDs) or text telephones, and other accommodations for use by persons with speech and hearing...
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4. Benefits of the Proposed Rule
Table 5 - Unquantified Benefits of the Proposed Rule Time savings by people with hearing, cognitive, speech, and manual dexterity or motor impairments from improved federal...
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Who Is Eligible To Receive Testing Accommodations?
Under the ADA, an individual with a disability is a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity (such as seeing, hearing, learning, reading...
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§35.162 Telephone Emergency Services
of title II specifically reflects congressional intent that public entities must ensure that telephone emergency services, including 911 services, be accessible to persons with impaired hearing...
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§35.160 General
Such a system might be an effective auxiliary aid or service for a person who is deaf or has a hearing loss who uses speech to communicate, but may be useless for someone who uses sign language...
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Benefits
with NFPA 72 National Fire Alarm Code and weather alert systems with audible and visible output so the final rule has no incremental benefits for disaster survivors who are deaf or have a hearing...
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36. Health, welfare, and other social service providers
For example, recipients could use several different types of notice in order to reach persons with impaired vision or hearing, such as brailled messages, radio spots, and tacticle [sic]...
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§35.160 General (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Such a system might be an effective auxiliary aid or service for a person who is deaf or has a hearing loss who uses speech to communicate, but may be useless for someone who uses sign language...
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§35.162 Telephone Emergency Services (Section-by-Section Analysis)
of title II specifically reflects congressional intent that public entities must ensure that telephone emergency services, including 911 services, be accessible to persons with impaired hearing...
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36 CFR Part 1195 Proposed Accessibility Standards for Medical Diagnostic Equipment NPRM
Hearings will be held on the proposed standards on the following dates: 1. March 14, 2012, 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Washington, DC. 2....
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6. Acquisition or Modification of Equipment and Devices
is only obligated to provide equipment that is needed to perform a job; there is no obligation to provide equipment that the individual uses regularly in daily life, such as glasses, a hearing...
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Easterseals Rehabilitation Center of Greater Waterbury
Our primary services at Easterseals include: Birth to Three Center for Better Hearing (audiology & hearing aid services) Children's Academy Driver Assessment...
