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ADA Titles
ADA Terminology
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CIL Services
AIC Trivia
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This Title of the ADA prohibits public entities like state or local government agencies from discriminating against individuals with disabilities.
What is Title II?
100
It is a change that is so significant that it alters the essential nature of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations offered.
What is a "fundamental alteration?"
100
This standard requires a maximum ratio of one inch of height for every one foot of length.
What is the maximum slope for a ramp?
100
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?
100
City of Bristol, Washington County, Smyth County, Bland County, Wythe County, Grayson County, Carroll County, City of Galax

What are the locations AIC serves

200
Under this Title of the ADA telecommunications companies must establish telecommunications relay services for callers with hearing and speech disabilities.
What is Title IV?
200
It is any modification or adjustment to a job or the work environment that will enable a qualified applicant or employee with a disability to participate in the application process or to perform essential job functions.
What is a “reasonable accommodation?”
200
It must have a clear opening of at least 32 inches.
What is the minimum width for an accessible doorway?
200
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?
200

The year 1988

What is the year AIC started

300
This Title of the ADA includes various provisions that are not necessarily covered by other titles, but have been used to clarify the application of the law. For example, this section notes that the ADA does not invalidate or override any other federal, state or local laws that provide equal or greater protections for people with disabilities.
What is Title V?
300
It describes anything that is easily accomplishable and able to be carried out without much difficulty or expense.
What is "readily achievable?"
300
These features must be able to be operated with a "closed fist."
What is the standard for accessible handles and controls?
300
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?
300

They are all people with disabilities regardless of their age or the nature of their disability

Who are the people we serve at Appalachian Independence Center?

400
This Title of the ADA requires public accommodations and commercial facilities to offer equal access and treatment, effective communication and removal of existing barriers for people with disabilities.
What is Title III?
400
It included anyone with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities (i.e. working, talking, hearing, seeing, caring for one's self) Or having a record of such an impairment; Or being regarded by others as having such an impairment.
What is the ADA definition of a person with a disability?
400
It consists of small truncated domes built in or applied to a walking surface that is detectable underfoot and indicates the boundary between a pedestrian route and a vehicular route.
What is the detectable warning surface for a curb ramp on a sidewalk or other pedestrian access route?
400
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?
400

To advocate for and with people with disabilities to promote full participation in society 

What is the mission of Appalachian Independence Center?

500
This Title of the ADA requires employers with 15 or more employees to treat qualified individuals with disabilities equally in all stages of employment.
What is Title I?
500
This term refers to an "action requiring significant difficulty or expense" when considered in light of a number of factors, including the nature and cost of the accommodation in relation to the size, resources, nature, and structure of the employer's operation.
What is an "undue hardship?"
500
It must have raised characters, sized between 5/8 and 2 inches high, in high contrast colors with Brailled text of the same information.
What is accessible signage?
500
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?
500

That people with disabilities have full and equal rights, access and participation in all aspects of life. 

What is the vision of Appalachian Independence Center?