Posts filed under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

April 26, 2011
San Francisco Chronicle
Cinemark theaters to install devices for the deaf
Cinemark, the nation's third-largest movie chain, said Tuesday it will install closed-captioning equipment for the deaf and hard-of-hearing in all its theaters in California by mid-2012,settling a disability-rights lawsuit in Alameda County.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), hearing impaired, public policy

April 11, 2011
University of Buffalo (N.Y.) Spectrum
A Shameful Low in Higher Education
Eight years ago, the University at Buffalo agreed to make this campus accessible to the roughly 500 disabled students who attend every year. Today, almost a decade later, UB has failed to follow through on that promise.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), education, higher education, public policy, Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 508

April 10, 2011
The Oklahoman
Oklahoma colleges improve accessibility, services for students with disabilities
A woman smacked Steve Stokes in the head with her purse, knocking him out of his wheelchair. She told him he shouldn't be out in public, that he belonged in a nursing home. Stokes was a college student in the late 1960s, a time when disabled people often were treated as outcasts. Accessibility on college campuses virtually was nonexistent.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), education, higher education, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, public policy, Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 508

March 31, 2011
San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News
New law: A service animal can be dog or mini-horse
Dani Moore uses a rat perched on her shoulder as a service animal to alert her to spasms from a disabling condition. Daniel Greene's service animal is a snake wrapped around his neck to help him predict epileptic seizures.
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March 16, 2011
The Los Angeles Times
Regulations for disability access take effect
New federal regulations improving access for the disabled took effect Tuesday at more than 7 million facilities nationwide, including many used for recreation.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), public policy, recreation

March 4, 2011
The Washington Post
Pa. man drops police lawsuit over hearing aids
A Pennsylvania man with hearing loss who aspires to a career in law enforcement has dropped his federal lawsuit against state police over guidelines that he said excluded qualified candidates who need hearing aids.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), employment, hearing impaired

March 1, 2011
KXAN-TV (Austin, Texas)
Rally puts faces to disability cuts
Services that help the disabled have been put on the chopping block up at the state Capitol, spurring a march and rally Tuesday morning.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), healthcare, long-term care, Olmsted decision, public policy

March 1, 2011
The Texas Tribune
Disability Advocates: "No Cuts! No Cuts!"
Josue Rodriguez sat in his motorized wheelchair on the south steps of the Capitol today and urged an audience of hundreds of disability advocates to continue fighting for their freedom. "What we need are vital services that keep us independent," the El Pasoan said.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), healthcare, long-term care, Olmsted decision, public policy

Feb. 22, 2011
The (Fredericksburg, Va.) Free Lance-Star
Community care urged for the disabled
Charles Cooper had never heard of Down syndrome in 1958, when his 2-week-old son was diagnosed with the disability. Cooper trusted the doctor when he said his son would do best in an institution. So Cooper went to a Fredericksburg judge and signed commitment papers. But then he visited some of the training centers. And Cooper decided that his son deserved better.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), healthcare, Olmsted decision, public policy

Feb. 13, 2011
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Elite charter school under probe again
For the second time in four years the state is investigating the enrollment process of the Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology after complaints the elite charter school illegally screened applicants.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), education, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, K-12, public policy

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