physical or mental disabilities. The law also requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees who need them because of their disabilities‚ unless doing so would cause undue hardship. EEOC is proud to be a leader in opening doors for people with disabilities. To honor the ADA’s 25th anniversary‚ we have created this web page to provide helpful information about disability rights and responsibilities and how EEOC is helping people with disabilities in the workplace
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regulations regarding the Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA). For example‚ IDEA has a zero reject policy‚ which guarantees that public schools cannot turn away a student based upon their disability. With the current demand for schools to perform well on different standardized tests‚ schools would easily turn away students with disability if this policy was not in place. Another major component of the IDEA that stood out to me is that students with disabilities must receive a Free Appropriate Public
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without offering proper assistance‚ education could be a difficult process for him. Even though Ryan’s visual impairment is not necessarily considered as a learning disability because as the textbook stated: “to be classified as a learning disability‚ the learning problem is not primarily the result of visual‚ hearing‚ or motor disabilities” (Santrock‚ 2011)‚ it is still as important for him to receive support in school for him to become a responsible and independent adult. As an educator‚ it is important
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1. Names and Definitions- -IDEA or Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is a four-part legislation that ensures students with a disability are provided with Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) that is tailored to their individual needs. -An IEP or Individualized Educational Plan/Program is a document that is developed for each school-aged child who is eligible for special education and related services‚ and describes the educational; program that has been designed to fit an individual
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Issues faced by person with disability and their legislative safeguard The phenomena of disability is an indespensible part of the human experience and cannot be divorced from the social milieu where it is produced. It cannot exist outside the periphery of social structure. Of course disability involves a broader conceptualisationn‚ as it is paret and parcel of social practice and social life. Amartya sen has rightly said “human beings are thoroughly diverse. We differ from each other not only in
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People with disabilities are significantly overrepresented in the nation’s prisons and jails today. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that fully 1 in 5 prison inmates have a serious mental illness (Vallas‚ 2016). As a result of this increase in population‚ these facilities are inadequately funded and staffed to provide mental health treatment to prisoners who are sentenced as a result of their mental illnesses (Gilna‚ 2016). North Carolina is one state that is addressing this issue. In 2014
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“The House of the Scorpion” by Nancy Farmer is a confusing but good book that teaches a valuable lesson. “The House of the Scorpion” takes place in a futuristic setting. A region in between Mexico and the U.S. Then the setting changes to what was once Mexico but now is called Aztlan. Matt is the clone of a drug lord El Patron who is hated by everyone except for a handful of people. Matt is very confused and feels alone all throughout the book. In the beginning of the book Matt discoveries that he
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the ADA‚ Ruth Colker in her book‚ "The Disability Pendulum‚”shows her disappointment for the disability rights community from the ADA implementation in first year. She traces the effectiveness of the ADA‚ and show how and why this key piece of civil rights legislation has fallen far short of the "high hopes and aspirations" of the disabled community and their advocates. She uses the metaphor of a swinging pendulum to symbolize shifting attitudes toward disability rights and the disabled. The book has
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Cystic Fibrosis: Description‚ signs and symptoms: Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder‚ which is acquired at conception and therefore present at birth. The disorder is entirely caused by one pair of genes. People with cystic fibrosis produce abnormally thick‚ stick mucus in the linings of internal organs such as the lungs and intestines. The most common signs are persistent coughing‚ excessive sweating leading to salty skin‚ huge appetite but poor weight gain‚ and pale‚ oily‚ very smelly faeces
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Nancy Hartsock theorizes that feminist standpoint is established in Marxist ideology. She argued that out of the experience of Marx understanding‚ a feminist standpoint could be built and used to criticize patriarchal theories. Thereby making a feminist standpoint important in the process of examining the systemic oppressions in a society. Hartsock maintains that since the life of women contrasts intrinsically to those of men‚ (as the owners’ lives contrasts with the workers’ lives) a foundation
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