History
This is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life.
What is The Americans with Disabilities Act?
The ADA bans discrimination based on this.
What is Disability?
The number of sections or titles in the ADA.
What is 5?
Public Transportation offered by a state or local government is covered by this of the ADA.
What is Title 2?
Centers for Independent Living help people learn how to do all kinds of thing to better manage their own lives. Things like learning how to ride the bus, planning a budget or figuring out how you are going to use the shower in your home fall under this category.
What is Independent Living Skills Training?
The year the ADA was enacted by Congress.
What is 1990?
Title 1, Employment, applies to companies with this many people or more.
What is 15?
This is a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.
What is a Disability?
This act prohibits places of public accommodation from discriminating against individuals with disabilities.
What is Title 3 - Public Accommodations & Services Operated by Private Entities?
Centers for Independent Living provide information about community resources that are available to people with disabilities. Helping people access services and products such as affordable, accessible housing; transportation options or adaptive equipment are examples of this service.
What are Information and Referral Services?
A person must be substantially limited in this to be considered “disabled” under the law.
What is a major life activity?
This is a modification or adjustment to a job to enable a qualified individual with a disability to work.
What is a Reasonable Accommodations?
The ADA requires this to be accessible.
What are Public Accommodations?
These are required during public service announcements as a result of Title 4.
What are Closed Captions?
Through this service, people with disabilities get advice from other people with disabilities on many different issues to help them weigh options and make informed decisions about their own lives.
What is Peer Counseling?
These documented daily instances of inaccessibility and discrimination.
What are the Discrimination Diaries?
According to Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a public entity that has a minimum of how many employees is required to designate an individual to oversee their compliance of the ADA.
What is 50?
The Architectural barriers act is enforced by this.
What are Investigating Complaints?
This act states that individuals can exercise their rights without fear of retaliation.
What is Title 5 – Provisions?
Whether done individually or within a group, Centers for Independent Living teach people how to fight for and get the things they want and need in life. Individuals can learn how to communicate and negotiate with agencies, service providers, employers and others in order to obtain needed benefits, services or accommodations. As a group people with disabilities learn how to effect public policy decisions important to them in their own communities.
What is Individual and Systems Advocacy?
This Act guaranteed children with disabilities the right to public school education.
What is the Education of All Handicapped Children Act (1975)?
This entity forbids discrimination in any aspect of employment (hiring, firing, pay, job assignments, promotions, leaving, or training).
What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)?
This is the name of the department in Austin that manages ADA services and programs.
What is the City of Austin American with Disabilities Act office?
This Act says that buildings that are designed, constructed, or altered in any way after 1969 need to be accessible for people with disabilities.
What is the Architectural Barriers Act?
When the Rehab Act was reauthorized as part of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act this new "fifth core serve" was added for Centers for Independent Living.
What is "Transition" services for youth from high school to post-secondary education and for adults from institutions to their own home and community?