People with vision and hearing loss and people with speech related disabilities often encounter many more communication barriers, especially when regular communication channels are down...
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Never Assume You have been Included in Emergency Plans
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III-4.2300 Service animals
Tasks typically performed by service animals include guiding people with impaired vision, alerting individuals with impaired hearing to the presence of intruders or sounds, providing minimal...
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15(b)
., rooms with features for individuals with mobility disabilities and hearing impairments) includes at least one suite (if the hotel has more than one suite), one room with one bed, one...
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SUMMARY:
Individuals who are deaf, are hard of hearing, or have speech impairments may access this number via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay Service at 800–877– 8339....
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Visible Alarms—Exception to Section 215.1 of the 2010 Standards
If visible alarms are not provided, there must be an effective means of alerting individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing to fires and other emergencies in order to afford them an equal...
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B. How Does a TTY Work?
A TTY is a device that is used with a telephone to communicate with persons with hearing disabilities or speech disabilities....
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Exam Tables & Scales: What Patients Say...
Hear from patients about their experiences accessing a comprehensive exam, transferring onto exam tables, and getting weighed. ...
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14. Child welfare agencies have an obligation to ensure the health and safety of children. How can agencies comply with the ADA and Section 504 while also ensuring health and safety?
direct threat is a significant risk to the health or safety of others that cannot be eliminated by a modification of policies, practices, or procedures, or by the provision of auxiliary aids...
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"Qualified interpreter.'' (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
The proposed rule defined auxiliary aids and services to include the statutory term, "qualified interpreters'' (Sec.36.303(b)), but did not define that term....
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ADA Task Force Meeting Topics (Public Entity)
Parties about ADA Coverage Develop Complaint Procedures Review Telephones, TDD's, Security Phones, etc. for Compliance Develop Notification Procedures for Additional Auxiliary Aids...
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Organization of this NPRM
The topics introduced in the general issues section include: Safe harbor, service animals, wheelchairs and other power-driven mobility devices, effective communication and auxiliary aids...
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VI. TRAINING
Employees involved in direct patient assistance include, but are not limited to: doctors, nurses, nurses aides, admissions staff, receptionists in outpatient facilities, and patient services...
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2. a. i. Accessible parking
The term "mobility impairments" is intended to include: conditions requiring the use or assistance of a brace, cane, crutch, prosthetic device, wheelchair or other mobility aid;...
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Stories of Emergency Use of Mobile Devices
A first aid app on his I phone instructed him on the best way to create a tourniquet for his leg and a bandage for his head....
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III-4.6200 Courses
Examples of possible modifications that might be required include extending the time permitted for completion of the course, providing auxiliary aids or services (except where to do so would...
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INVESTIGATION AND FINDINGS
Attorney’s Office determined that AFAC denied K.B. appropriate auxiliary aids and services necessary for effective communication during multiple medical appointments in violation of 42 U.S.C...
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Qualified interpreter (Section-By-Section Analysis and Response to Comments)
The proposed rule defined auxiliary aids and services to include the statutory term, "qualified interpreters'' (Sec.36.303(b)), but did not define that term....
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Intent
It also does not address accessibility provisions that are non-architectural, such as policies and procedures, employee training, public transportation vehicles, auxiliary aids and services...
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Adjustable height protocol
The man was 68 years old and had a complete spinal cord injury at level T2, weighted 185 lbs, was 71” tall, had been using a manual wheelchair for 7 years, and used a walker to aid with...
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E. Assistive Technology
., platform accessibility information provided under proposed 502.2) to aid interoperability, and, thereby, decrease the need for customized approaches....
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Sections 35.108(a)(2) and 36.105(a)(2) Definition of ‘‘disability’’—Rules of Construction
individual is challenging a covered entity’s failure to provide effective communication, that individual cannot rely solely on the ‘‘regarded as prong’’ because the entitlement to an auxiliary aid...
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ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN BY AURORA
hospitals, physicians, outpatient health care centers, and other medical facilities, agrees that it will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of disability, including HIV or AIDS...
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Subpart F-Certification of State Laws or Local Building Codes (Section-by-Section Analysis)
., if the Assistant Attorney General makes a preliminary determination of equivalency, he or she shall hold an informal hearing in Washington, D.C.) be changed to a requirement that the...
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East Texas Center for Independent Living (ETCIL) - Tyler, TX
spina bifida, and cerbral palsy Mental, cognitive, or developmental disabilities such as traumatic brain injuries, depression, and learning differences Hearing...
