ADA Titles
This title protects against retaliation
V Protection of Rights
This legislation includes ….
-Provision of accessible work environment
-Restructuring job description
-Provision of assistive equipment
-Provision of personal assistants
-Provide flexible scheduling
ADA :Reasonable Accommodations
3-5 preschoolers are served by this organization
Local school district
Who funds the state vocational programs?
State and federal governments
Established in this year
1973
This title….
addresses telephone and television access for people with hearing and speech disabilities. It requires common carriers (telephone companies) to establish interstate and intrastate telecommunications relay services (TRS) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Title IV: Telecommunications
Allows people with disabilities to access mainstream equipment
Telecommunications Act of 1996
Persons age 6-21 are served by this organizations or until graduation from high school
Local school district
Who pays for AT for an adult with a disability who is returning to work?
State Vocational Rehabilitation Programs
Federal legislation that mandates funding for:
Vocational rehabilitation
independent living and this other service
Supported employment
This title states:
prohibits discrimination in recruitment, hiring, promotions, training, pay, social activities, and other privileges of employment. It restricts questions that can be asked about an applicant's disability before a job offer is made, and it requires that employers make reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of otherwise qualified individuals with disabilities, unless it results in undue hardship.
Title I: Employment
Signed into Law July 26, 1990
Improve equality and access to employment, goods and services, transportation and telecommunications
Moves beyond regulations for federal and federally funded agencies to provide more universally applied practice policies
ADA
0-3 EI (early Intervention) provided by this organization
DDS: Department of Developmental Disabilities
When a 16 year old is training for a job while still attending high school, who pays for the AT?
The local school district
This section of the Rehab Act Applies to employers and organizations that receive federal financial assistance.
Prompted Architectural Changes- elevators, ramps, curb cuts, brail
Section 504
This title states that…..
businesses and nonprofit service providers who own, lease, lease to, or operate facilities such as restaurants, retail stores, hotels, movie theaters, private schools, convention centers, doctors' offices, homeless shelters, transportation depots, zoos, funeral homes, day care centers, and recreation facilities including sports stadiums and fitness clubs
Title III: Public Accommodations
Purpose: Funding provided for development and coordination of statewide, consumer driven technology programs
Assistive Technology Act
At this age the transition program should begin
Age 16
Where can a person with a disability get a low interest loan for AT?
State AT Programs
This section of the Rehab Act ….
Mandates that all electronic & information technology used by Federal agencies be accessible to those with disabilities
Created accessibility standards for all products and internet access.
Mandates for Rehabilitation Technology to be accessible
Section 508
This Title requires..... State and local governments give people with disabilities an equal opportunity to benefit from all of their programs, services, and activities (e.g. public education, employment, transportation, recreation, health care, social services, courts, voting, and town meetings).
Title II: II State and Local Government Activities/ Public Services including Transportation
I: Grants to support states to implement technology related programs
Legal assistance, public awareness, advocacy, technical support
II: Increased coordination of efforts between federal and non-federal organizations
Small business research, universal design, urban/rural area needs
III: Specified alternative financing systems
Low interest loan, loan guarantee programs, interest buy-down program
Assistive Technology Act
The IDEA required that this now be considered for students with and IEP
AT
A new employee at P&G with a disability is working in an older P&G building. There is NO accessible bathroom stall on the floor in which she works. The employee requests an accessible bathroom stall be provided.
Who would pay for such a modification?
Under which law is this specified?
P&G and ADA
As a result of this legislation, eligible individuals receive these vocational rehabilitation services
DAILY DOUBLE
Written plan guides services
Each plan has to consider whether AT would help client procure/maintain employment
AT has to be made available during evaluation phase
Have to provide AT devices, services & training as necessary to procure/maintain employment