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Tag Archives: ADA. Americans with Disabilities Act
ADA: Celebrate 26 Years on the 26th! (Part 2)
July 26th marks the 26th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the historic civil rights law that prohibits discrimination and ensures equal opportunity for persons with disabilities in employment, state and local government services, public … Continue reading
Posted in Event, Project, Publications, Right Resources Right Now, Uncategorized
Tagged #ADA26, ADA 26 anniversary, ADA. Americans with Disabilities Act, architecture, Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute, Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access, Cloud Computing, continuing education, Disability and Rehabilitation Research Project on Inclusive Cloud and Web Computing, disability civil rights movement, Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII), inclusive design, legislation, NIDILRR Projects, NIDILRR Research, online courses, physical accessibility, Publications, Raising the Floor coalition, RERC for Wireless Techologies, RERC on Physical Access and Transportation (RERC-APT), RERC on Universal Interface and Information Technology Access, RERC Universal Design and the Built Environmentthe Built, RL Mace Universal Design Institute, Ronald L. Mace, technology access, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Tiramisu, Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Trace Center, transportation, UD and Public Accommodations, UniveralDesign.com, universal design, universal interfaces, virtual accessibility, visitability, web systems, Wireless RERC, wireless technologies
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, May 2 to Friday, May 6
Aquí puede leer este artículo en español. Accessible Travel: Airline accessibility remains an issue (Disability Scoop) While most people assume the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) governs accessibility on airplanes, this is not the case. Accessible lavatories are required only … Continue reading
Posted in Weekly News Roundup
Tagged accessible airplane bathrooms, accessible travel, ADA. Americans with Disabilities Act, Adderall, Alzheimer's Disease, behavior therapy for ADHD, Boston Marathon blind runner, children with ADHD, college program for students with intellectual disabilities, concrete processing and PTSD, GlassOuse head tracking mouse, ritalin, timed-release glaucoma drug, University of Cincinnati Transition Access Program
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, July 20 – Friday, July 24
Aquí puede leer este artículo en español. Accessibility: Woman in wheelchair who fought for Disabilities Act can’t use tour bus (The Washington Post) Even before she arrives in the nation’s capital this weekend to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the … Continue reading
Posted in Weekly News Roundup
Tagged accessibility, ADA. Americans with Disabilities Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Argus II eye prosthesis, cataracts, hemiplegia, lanosterol, lanosterol eye drops, macular degeneration, National Council on Disability, NIDILRR, paretic limb, Robert L. Burgdorf Jr, Social Security, Social Security disabilities benefits, stroke, visitability
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, April 20 to Friday, April 24
Aqui puede leer este artículo en español Human Interest: The Catastrophe (The New Yorker) In July of 2003, neurologist Oliver Sacks and his colleague Orrin Devinsky were consulted by Spalding Gray, the actor and writer famous for his autobiographical monologues, … Continue reading
Posted in Weekly News Roundup
Tagged ADA. Americans with Disabilities Act, ADAPT, color blindness, community-based living, depression, disability rights activists, Eye2TV, HATC, Hearing Aid Tax Credit, HR1882, MMR vaccine and autism, Special Olympics, suicide, tinnitus, traumatic brain injury, type 1 diabetes
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, February 9 – Friday, February 13
Human Interest: Meet the first model with Down syndrome to walk the runway at Fashion Week (NBC TODAY) Jamie Brewer, an actress with Down syndrome, is modeling designs by Carrie Hammer during New York Fashion Week. She is part of … Continue reading
Posted in Weekly News Roundup
Tagged ADA. Americans with Disabilities Act, alpha brain waves and hearing impairment, autism spectrum disorder, cerebellum, declarative memory, diabetes, diabetes treatment, Down syndrome awareness, dyslexia, glucose-responsive insulin, iBrailler keyboard for iPads, intellectual disabilities, obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD, parents with disabilities, poststroke rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Act, section 504, seniors with hearing loss, Specific Language Impairment, stroke, Tourette Syndrome
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, December 1 –Friday, December 5
Human Interest: Navigating the stage with a disability (The Wall Street Journal) At a New York Festival of Song concert in November, the organization’s co-founder, pianist Steven Blier, zoomed onto the stage in his battery-operated wheelchair. “This takes a minute, … Continue reading
Posted in Weekly News Roundup
Tagged ADA. Americans with Disabilities Act, Liftware spoon, memory improvement activity, mental health, musicians with disabilities, powered prosthetic leg, prehabilitation, Sigmund Freud, smartphones and neck injury, spoon for users with tremors, stroke, stroke rehabilitation, Supreme Court, TBI, traumatic brain injury, TV remote control interface for users with visual impairments
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What are Reasonable Job Accommodations for People with Disabilities?
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). NDEAM raises awareness about disability employment issues and celebrates the many and varied contributions of America’s workers with disabilities. The theme for 2014 is “Expect. Employ. Empower.” The Americans with Disabilities Act … Continue reading
Posted in Answer Queue, Organization, Uncategorized
Tagged accommodations by disability, ADA. Americans with Disabilities Act, Employer Assistance and Resource Network, Employers, employment, JAN, Job Accommodation Network, LEAD Center, National Collaboration on Workforce and Disability/Youth, National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), reasonable accommodation, searchable online accommodations resource, SOAR, Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, workers with disabilities
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Scholarship Opportunity for Families with Living Disabilities
Bonnie Brown is a single mother with an intellectual disability. Myra is her 15-year-old daughter, a gifted-and-talented student who aspires to attend the University of Cambridge when she graduates. Both were featured on StoryCorps to talk about their lives and … Continue reading
Posted in Article, Continuing Education, Event, Grant/scholarship opportunity, Organization
Tagged ADA, ADA. Americans with Disabilities Act, advocacy, Americans with Disabilities Act, bonnie, brown, civil, civil rights, discrimination, education, familias, families, families with disabilities, myra, NARIC, National Center for Parents with Disabilities and their Families, National Council on Disabilities, National Council on Disability, owusu, parents with disabilities, rights, rocking the cradle, scholarship, Story Corp, storycorps, teddowusu, teddy, through the looking glass, U.S. Department of Education
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