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ADA - Your Employment Rights as an Individual With a Disability
- The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) makes it unlawful to discriminate in employment
against a qualified individual with a disability. The ADA also outlaws discrimination against individuals with disabilities in State and local government services, public accommodations, transportation and telecommunications. This booklet explains the part of the ADA that prohibits job discrimination. This part of the law is enforced by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and State and local
civil rights enforcement agencies that work with the Commission.
Other Topics:
Employment
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ADA Checklist MEDICAL CARE FACILITIES
- Checklist developed by Utah Disability Law Center - federal regs apply in WV.
Other Topics:
Access
Architectural Barriers
Health Care
Community Services
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ADA Checklist PUBLIC BUILDINGS
- Checklist developed by the Utah Disability Law Center - federal regs apply in WV.
Other Topics:
Access
Architectural Barriers
Community Services
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ADA Checklist RESTAURANTS AND CAFETERIAS
- Checklist developed by Utah Disability Law Center - federal regs apply in WV.
Other Topics:
Access
Architectural Barriers
Community Services
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ADA Checklist Transient Lodging, Hotels
- ADA Checklist Transient Lodging, Hotels, Motels, Inns, Boarding Houses, Dormitories and similar facilities developed by Utah Disability Law Center - federal regs apply in WV.
Other Topics:
Access
Architectural Barriers
Community Services
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Accommodating people with intellectual disabilities
- This paper will tell consumers and those involved in consumers' lives how the ADA may apply to people with a cognitive disability. By "cognitive disability", we mean someone who has difficulty reading, writing and understanding, due to mental retardation, autism, traumatic brain injury, or other disability. Examples based upon real life situations illustrate the kinds of issues and considerations that may be involved with this population. We give examples of reasonable accommodations that employers, businesses and public agencies may need to provide to give people with cognitive disabilities equal opportunities under the law. Reasonable accommodations for a person with a cognitive disability may look quite different than those for a person with a physical disability.
Other Topics:
Access
Other ADA
Community Services
Health Care
Employment
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Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board
- The ADA requires that the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) issue guidelines to ensure that buildings, facilities, and vehicles covered by the law are accessible, in terms of architecture and design, transportation, and communication, to individuals with disabilities. Regulations issued by the Department of Justice and the Department of Transportation must be consistent with the Access Board's guidelines. The Access Board issued the Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG) for buildings and facilities on July 26, 1991; and amended it on September 6, 1991 to include additional requirements for transportation facilities. The Access Board also issued ADAAG for transportation vehicles on September 6, 1991. The Department of Justice has adopted ADAAG for buildings and facilities as the accessibility standard for new construction and alterations of places of public accommodation and commercial facilities covered by title III of the ADA. The Department of Transportation has adopted ADAAG as the accessibility standard for new construction and alterations of transportation facilities by public entities covered by title II of the ADA and for transportation vehicles acquired by public and private entities covered by titles II and III of the ADA. ADAAG is reprinted in the Department of Justice and Department of Transportation regulations, as applicable. The regulations issued by the Federal agencies listed in this chart contain other requirements, in addition to those relating to accessibility. The addresses and phone numbers for contacting the Federal agencies are at the end of this chart.
Other Topics:
Access
Architectural Barriers
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Attorneys, Deaf Clients,
- Attorneys have responsibilities to provide deaf clients with sign language
interpreters and other accommodations that they may need to communicate.
A lawyer who fails to communicate effectively with a client is not meeting his or
her duty of competent and zealous representation under the Canons of Ethics. Furthermore, attorneys have a statutory duty to provide effective communication to deaf clients under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which went into effect on January 26, 1991. Title III of the ADA, 42 U.S.C. ŠŠ12181 - 12183,provides people with disabilities the right to equal access to public accommodations. Both Title III of the ADA, and the U.S. Department of Justice regulation pursuant to Title III, 28 C.F.R. Part 36, specifically include the offices of lawyers in the definition of public accommodations.
Other Topics:
Access
Community Services
Assistive Technology
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FAQ Reasonable Accomodations
- Frequently Asked Questions about Reasonable Accommodations of Disabilities in Employment
Other Topics:
Employment
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Paratransit and conditional eligibility
- In terms of ADA complementary paratransit, conditional eligibility (also known as trip-by-trip eligibility) refers to paratransit eligibility for some trips, but not all, as the customer’s ability to use fixed-route service is likely to change with differing circumstances. Conditional eligibility may be appropriate for individuals who can reasonably be expected to use fixed route service for some trips (when barriers that prevent travel are not present), but who cannot be expected to use fixed route service under other conditions.
Other Topics:
Assistive Technology
Transportation
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Reasonable Accommodations for Deaf Employees
- Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits employers, employment agencies, labor unions and joint labor-management committees from
discriminating against persons with disabilities. ADA obligations are placed on employers of fifteen or more people.
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Telecommunications - Title IV
- Title IV of the Americans with Disabilities Act requires telephone companies to provide continued voice transmission relay services that allow people with hearing and speech impairments to communicate over the telephone through
teletypewriter. In addition, Title IV requires that federally funded television public
service messages be close captioned for viewers with hearing impairments.
Other Topics:
Assistive Technology
Access
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