ADA & Tech
Hospitals must provide this person to help a Deaf patient communicate.
What is a Sign Language Interpreter?
The 1988 protest at Gallaudet University that demanded a Deaf Leader.
What is Deaf President Now (DPN)?
Small changes an employer makes so a Deaf person can do their job.
What are Reasonable Accomodations?
PRO: This ensures Deaf people get warnings during a hurricane or fire.
What is Emergency Access?
This law specifically focuses on the individual education plans for Deaf children.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
This service lets Deaf people make phone calls using an operator.
What is Relay (TRS)?
The first major law (1973) to ban discrimination in federal programs.
What is Section 504?
Can a store charge a Deaf person for the cost of an interpreter?
No
CON: An excuse businesses use to say an interpreter costs too much.
What is Undue Burden?
A college can't refuse to provide an interpreter just because the student is taking this type of "extra" class.
What is an Elective?
This law requires captions on internet videos and TV.
What is the CVAA?
This year the ADA was officially signed into law.
What is 1990?
The type of captions that can be turned on or off.
What is Closed Captions?
CON: Interpreting via a tablet that often freezes or has bad Wi-Fi.
What is Video Remote Interpreting (VRI)?
This term refers to placing a Deaf student in a regular hearing classroom with only an interpreter for support.
What is Mainstreaming?
This title of the ADA protects you from being fired for being Deaf.
What is Title l?
The U.S. President who signed the ADA.
What is George H.W. Bush?
This Title of the ADA covers state and local government buildings.
What is Title ll?
PRO: The ADA treats Deafness as a "difference" rather than a "sickness."
What is the Social Model?
The "negative" impact of the law is that it focuses on "access," but not necessarily on the child's right to learn this specific language.
What is ASL?
This law protects the privacy of medical info during an interpreted visit.
What is HIPAA?
The term for the "minimum" level of access a law requires.
What is the Legal Floor?
This Title covers "Public Places" like restaurants and gyms.
What is Title lll?
CON: To get their rights, a Deaf person often has to file one of these.
What is a Lawsuit (or Complaint)?
This 1982 Supreme Court case was a "loss" for the community because it ruled a school didn't' have to provide an interpreter if the student was "passing."
What is the Rowley Case?