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Ada And Psychiatric Disabilities
1,893 wordsTHE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT Orientation to Topic 1 Purpose of Study 1 2 EEOC GUIDELINES ON PSYCHIATRIC DISABILITIES 4 Mental Impairments Under the ADA 4 Substantial Impairment 5 Disclosure of Mental Disability 7 Requesting Reasonable Accommodations 8 Selected Types of Reasonable Accommodation 10 Direct Threat Exception 13 Alleged discrimination against employees with psychiatric problems is the second most common type of Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) claim filed with the federal ...
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Ada And Psychiatric Disabilities
1,897 words... commotion at any time during employment. Request for Medical Documentation When the need for accommodation is not obvious, an employer may ask an employee for reasonable documentation about his / her disability and functional limitations. The employer is entitled to know that the employee has a covered disability for which s / he needs a reasonable accommodation. Documentation Submitted by Employee A variety of health professionals may provide such documentation with regard to psychiatric di...
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Mentally Retarded Learning Disabilities
2,337 words... e the child's mental capacities in coordination with his motor patterns. The series consists of tasks organized into five areas: Another perceptual-motor approach is that put forth by Newell Kephart (1969). He illustrates his emphasis in his theory which is organized into three stages of learning development practical, subjective, and objective all stages based upon four motor generalizations; posture and maintenance of balance, contact, locomotor, and receipt and propulsion. " The practical...
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Dawn Social Justice Group
475 wordsThe social justice group DAWN (disabled womans network Ontario) is a province wide organization of woman with all types of disabilities. They are a feminist organization which supports woman in their struggle to control their own lives. Dawn Ontario is controlled by women with disabilities. The members include woman with disabilities and non-disabled woman. Also included are lesbians, bisexual woman, aboriginal woman, Franco-Ontarian woman, and woman from many other ethnic, racial, cultural, and...
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Undue Hardship Reasonable Accommodation
4,186 wordsTHE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Barriers to employment, transportation, public accommodations, public services, and telecommunications have imposed staggering economic and social costs on American society and have undermined our well-intentioned efforts to educate, rehabilitate, and employ individuals with disabilities. By breaking down these barriers, the Americans with Disabilities Act will enable society to benefit from the skills and talents of individuals with disa...
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Prohibits Discrimination
4,181 words... r after July 26, 1992, may be filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or designated State human rights agencies. Available remedies will include hiring, reinstatement, promotion, back pay, front pay, restored benefits, reasonable accommodation, attorneys' fees, expert witness fees, and court costs. Compensatory and punitive damages also may be available in cases of intentional discrimination or where an employer fails to make a good faith effort to provide a reasonable accommo...
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Health Care System Health Care Services
2,314 wordsRunning head: HEALTH CARE Health Care for Families and People with Disabilities [author's name] [author's affiliation] Health Care for Families and People with Disabilities Disability is defined by Newacheck and Halfon (1998) as a long-term reduction in ability to conduct social role activities because of a chronic physical or mental condition. Krahn (as cited in Krahn, Hammond, & Turner, 2006) noted that, until recently, disability was presumed equivalent to illness, with similar expectations o...
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People With Disabilities Task Force
1,461 wordsHiring Disabled Employees Approximately 54 million noninstitutionalized Americans have physical, intellectual, or psychiatric disabilities. Of these cases, 26 million are classified as having a severe disability. Severe disabilities include Alzheimer's disease, autism, mental retardation, and long-term use of a cane, crutches, walker, or wheelchair. Historically, individuals with disabilities have not fared well in the US labor force. Census figures indicate that of the 15. 6 million working-age...
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Understanding And Educating Children With Learning Disabilities
1,370 wordsUnderstanding and Educating Children With Learning Disabilities Most of us know, or are taught, at an early age, how to process information and develop an organized plan or strategy when confronted with a problem, whether that problem is social, academic, or job related. Others find such cognitive processes quite difficult. Learning disabilities have only recently been recognized as disabilities. This neurological disorder causes difficulty in organizing information received, remembering them, a...
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Muscular Dystrophy Association Post Secondary Education
965 wordsThe time when children with disabilities could legally be prevented from attending public schools is long past. A series of federal laws has guaranteed children with disabilities an education in the public school. But while it is against the law to discriminate those who are disabled, it is very hard to adopt the mentality of the population and to make them see disabled as equals. Raising a child with muscular dystrophy as with any other disability is not an easy task. Muscular dystrophy causes ...
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Middle School Elementary School
750 wordsLearning Disability in School or Emotionally Handicapped in School. Children with the physical disabilities have to meet real challenge when they approach the middle school level. The transition from elementary to middle school causes a number of questions for all children and especially for the children with disabilities. The article (Erik W. Carter, Nitasha M. Clark, Lisa Cushing, Craig H. Kennedy) explains the problems which may arise during the transition and their possible solutions. The fi...
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Hospitality Industry Disabilities Act
1,831 wordsThe Dynamic Impact of the American with Disabilities Act on the Hospitality Industry The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a Federal civil rights law that was passed in 1990. It was created with the purpose to protect people with hearing, vision and speech impairments. The law should protect them against discrimination in everyday activities. It is known that it is difficult for such people to buy an item at the store, or to travel somewhere, or to enjoy meat at a restaurant. The ADA incl...
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Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
2,564 wordsDisabilities Many children and teenagers suffer different sorts of disabilities and disorders, like attention deficit or learning disability, which may affect the development and behavior of such children and cause difficulties with education. A child with any sort of diagnosed disability requires a lot of attention, proper treatment and help from people around: parents, friends, teachers, etc. It is necessary to provide students, who suffer psychological disorders of various levels, with specia...
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Mentally Retarded Regular Classrooms
4,842 wordsDemocracy by sheer definition is synonymous with equality. Therefore, the concept of mainstreaming fits perfectly in this scenario. Democracy comes from the Latin word demos meaning the the people, not just one type of people, but all people. Mainstreaming children with disabilities into general classes should not be a privilege, but a common thing. Doing this in turn would instill a sense of acceptance and tolerance in the students, thereby reducing the amount of discrimination that a special e...
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1,575 wordsINTER-AMERICAN CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ARTICLE I For the purposes of this Convention, the following terms are defined: 1. Disability The term disability means a physical, mental, or sensory impairment, whether permanent or temporary, that limits the capacity to perform one or more essential activities of daily life, and which can be caused or aggravated by the economic and social environment. 2. Discrimination against persons...
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3,108 wordsDiversity in Outdoor Adventure Programs: A Summary and Critique Jamie Grey Adventure Recreation 2033 Thayer Raines April 9, 2001 People with disabilities in the past have commonly been limited to experiencing outdoor programs that were segregated to only include the disabled. According to Sugerman (1996), this has historically been the only solution for overcoming environmental barriers such as transportation, architecture, economics, and public attitudes (p. 44). Diversity within an adventure p...
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First Three Years Years Of Life
1,149 wordsEarly Intervention And Detection Of Medical, Emotional, Early Intervention And Detection Of Medical, Emotional, And Physical Disorders And Disabilities In the past children with disabilities were most often neglected, abused, and even killed. Today, however, society has become more understanding and involved in the lives, as well as the education of people with disabilities. In 1975, PL 94 - 142, otherwise known as The Education for All Handicapped Children Act, was the first step to providing a...
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Individuals With Disabilities Children With Disabilities
1,668 wordsLee Daniels Daniels 1 Miss Coffman/Mrs. Drury Research Paper 13 April 2000 Individuals with Disabilities Act Historically, disabled children were segregated from regular education students in the public schools. They did not have the opportunity to interact with their non-disabled peers. They were often placed in separate settings with all children who also had disabilities. The treatment and discrimination of disabled children and their parents were the main purposes for the formation of IDEA, ...
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People With Disabilities Means Of Communication
1,657 wordsAs we approach the 21 st century, there are noticeable advancements in technology that is making communication much easier for the people of the world. The people who are now achieving more due to this technology are those with disabilities. The new wave of electronics is coming in the form of assistive technology. Assistive technology is a device or process that helps a person with a disability to do something that could otherwise be difficult or impossible to accomplish. By implementing applia...
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People With Disabilities Equal Treatment
1,111 wordsThe Rights of People with Disabilities Many people with disabilities have been fighting for equal opportunities and equal treatment. Discrimination against people with disabilities was at an overall high but, in the last ten years new laws have been passed and equality is one step closer. Why disability rights? One man tells a story on why people with disabilities need rights and laws to get the same opportunities. Paul had been active in progressive politics for more than 25 years. He became di...
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