Disability Discrimination Act: The disability discrimination act promotes equality for all people involved; it ensures that nobody whom has a disability can be treated unfairly because of their disability and the things they’re unable to do. The disability discrimination act applied to housing‚ training‚ transport‚ goods‚ facilities and service. They apply to these things because they ensure that nobody can be discriminated against or treated differently because of their disability in relation
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Community Care legislation (The Disability Discrimination Act‚ People First‚ The Direct Payments Act) • The Disability Discrimination Act; this bans disability discrimination by employers against disabled job-seekers‚ discrimination from fellow employees and also by service providers against disabled service users. This is the main disability discrimination law‚ it imposes a duty on employers and service providers to make adjustments so that they can have access employment‚ access to and use of goods
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I’d first like to address Group 4’s question which questions‚ “Why do you think that the majority of people who have a disability have always been poor‚ powerless‚ and degraded?” Disabled persons are part of the biggest minority in the world‚ and naturally the minorities get less benefits than the majority. United Nations Enable states that “Persons with disabilities are routinely denied these basic rights: Receiving an education‚ Living independently in the community‚ getting jobs‚ even when well
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II. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is a legislative civil rights act that protects people with disabilities in any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance‚ including school systems (Jacob et al.‚ 2011). Section 504 forbids schools from three types of discriminations that are prohibited by law. First‚ public schools are not allowed to exclude students with disabilities from participating in school programs and activities
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SafetyBelt: None ? REVIEW Page Below is the entire module on one page. wheelchair bound computer user It is estimated that 43‚000‚000 Americans have disabilities‚ with the number growing significantly as the population ages. The movement to assure accessibility to the Internet as a civil right gained momentum with the 1998 Amendments to the Rehabilitation Act. These amendments are called Section 508‚ The Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards. Section 508 requires most
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Most people have a friend or at least know about someone who is disabled. The number of disabled individuals continues to rise along with the population. Disabled Americans have experienced hardship throughout history‚ and their effort led to the Americans with Disabilities Act. Disabled Americans have a long and painful history. Ableism was a prevalent state of mind up into the 20th century (Faville). Ableism was discrimination against disabled individuals (Faville). Because of this‚ the disabled
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Introduction 1 The ADA 1 Disability 2 Reasonable Accommodation 3 Undue hardship 4 Obligation for Reasonable Accommodation 5 What Managers Can Do To Reduce Liability 6 Current and Future Trends in Reasonable Accommodation 7 Conclusion 7 Introduction Doors and halls not wide enough for wheel chairs to pass through‚ nonexistent wheelchair ramps‚ elevators without brail‚ classifying a job applicant as inferior because of their physical or mental disability‚ the examples are endless.
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American citizens with disabilities began to join forces in the 1960’s. They all saw the same problem; disabled people were not treated equally. Disabled and non-disabled people nationwide began to band together for the common cause demanding equal treatment‚ equal access‚ and equal opportunity for all. Although this movement began in the 1960’s‚ nothing happened until 1990. In 1990‚ the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) expanded the freedoms and hopes of individuals with impairments through
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safe environment. Litigation has taken the place of common sense and compassion within organizations over the past years. Litigation has become a main priority and the Department of Labor‚ Equal Employment Opportunity Commission‚ the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and also the Department of Homeland Security all have been regulating this. Although some may disagree that litigation has created a more structured work environment‚ there are a lot that would say it has. Litigation has balanced out
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public supported education with mental retardation. Educators have to give the students with mental retardation an equal education as the other students. The effect on the educators is FAPE‚ Free Appropriate Public Education‚ for students with disabilities. Mills vs. The Board of Education (1972) The case was brought up because there were 18‚000 students not enrolled in a school because of behavior problems as in ADHD and other behavior problems. The reason being this is because the schools did
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