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6 Aug 2023, 11:37 am by McCormack Law Firm
The company eventually agreed to provide American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters for safety meetings and Video Remote Interpreting (VRI) for daily meetings. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 8:34 am by admin
” Leave can constitute a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act as long as it doesn’t impose undue hardship. [read post]
6 Nov 2019, 6:27 am by Bob Kraft
The Americans with Disabilities Act and Other Resources Even though it was signed into law nearly three decades ago, the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, remains a piece of legislation that needs to be regularly discussed. [read post]
27 Oct 2021, 9:03 pm by Mark C. Weber
Historically, American immigration law has explicitly discriminated against people with disabilities. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 7:32 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan Mendez, appeared yesterday alongside the ACLU's Jamil Dakwar and other leading experts and advocates at a briefing sponsored by the ACLU, Human Rights Advocates, Penal Reform International, and the Swiss Mission to the United Nations. [read post]
11 Apr 2012, 8:57 am
This case is a good example of parents being advocates for their children with disabilities. [read post]
21 May 2018, 9:11 am by Reiter & Walsh, P.C.
The demand for home care is on the rise, in large part because the number of Americans age 85 and older will more than double over the next few decades. [read post]
15 Apr 2013, 2:00 am by koherston
CONAN: And you’ll forgive me, but why isn’t this covered under the Americans With Disabilities Act? [read post]
14 Jan 2014, 11:42 am by resistance
Jenn Fang, an advocate for Asian American issues and founder of the site Reappropriate.co, believes that feminist issues have previously been largely silenced in the Asian-American community. [read post]
31 Oct 2021, 9:05 pm by Britney Wilson
So far, people with disabilities have largely been left at the mercy of the administrative state when it comes to advocating for an equal chance at treatment and the preservation of their lives in emergency situations. [read post]
21 Apr 2022, 12:48 pm by Jennifer Danish
The variable nature of RA makes disability cases more difficult to prove, and often leads to anxiety for those who apply for disability benefits. [read post]
16 Nov 2017, 11:14 am by Kylee Clark
Turco III, MCI-Norfolk [official website] Superintendent Sean Medeiros, Americans with Disabilities Act Coordinator James M. [read post]
30 Apr 2013, 5:51 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, J.D., Ph.D.
Lynn focuses onShaping American health care so that every person can count on living comfortably and meaningfully through the period of serious illness and disability in the last years of life, at a sustainable cost to the community Why are we still using 20-year-old SUPPORT data to guide end-of-life medicine and social support [read post]
3 Aug 2015, 11:27 am by Christopher G. Ward
Last week – July 26, 2015, to be precise – marked the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 3:00 am
Such a model focuses instead on harmful social perceptions and structures that advocates can help responsible actors to reconceive (e.g., in the practical context of “universal design”).Lessons from the Inter-American SystemHelpful lessons may be drawn from recent encouraging developments in the Inter-American Human Rights System such as Gonzalez (“Cotton Field”) v. [read post]