The standards address equipment that requires transfer from wheelchairs and other mobility aids and include requirements for transfer surfaces, support rails, armrests, compatibility with...
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5. Medical Diagnostic Equipment
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Safety Assistants/Attendants
(We use the term “severe hearing and vision impairment” to include the entire spectrum of this disability, including the extreme of “deaf-blind,” unless we expressly indicate otherwise.)...
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Spinal Cord Injury Information Pages
If you know of any encouraging news, a new SCI resource, a new daily living aid or just something noteworthy drop me a line and I'll try to post it....
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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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Visible Alarms in Alterations to Existing Facilities
Over time, existing facilities will become fully accessible to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, and will add minimal costs to owners and operators....
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Volume Control on Public Phones
Comments from persons who are hard of hearing sought an increase in the number of phones required to have volume control....
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C. FINDINGS BY THE UNITED STATES
accessible to people who are blind or have low vision; many audiovisual programs and most audio-only programs had audio tracks which were not accessible to people who are deaf or hard of 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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Customer Premises Equipment (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH) and many individuals who are hard of hearing suggested clarifying the definition to include public pay telephones as examples of customer premises...
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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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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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Background
14 CFR Part 382 (Part 382), its ACAA rule, to apply the rule to foreign carriers and to add new provisions concerning passengers who use medical oxygen and those who are deaf or hard of hearing...
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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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8.3 Illegal Use of Drugs
The illegal use of drugs does not include drugs taken under supervision of a licensed health care professional, including experimental drugs for people with AIDS, epilepsy, or mental illness...
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1. Program Access
obligations: A public entity may comply with the requirements of this section through such means as redesign of equipment, reassignment of services to accessible buildings, assignment of aides...
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5.1 Transfer Surface Height Recommendations
This height is also critical for patients who use mobility aids such as walkers and canes and may find it difficult to get up onto or down from an examination chair or table or imaging bed...
