I have found yet another petition supporting the ADA Restoration Act, this one by the American Diabetic Association. This petition only seems to contact your congressional represenative regarding the house version of the bill (HR 3195). It does not contact either of your senators for the senate version of the bill (S 1881). [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Kaaryn Sanon of the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) has generously sent me the following transcript of a recent Disability nation podcast (referenced in an earlier blog entry at ReunifyGally). The audio version of this podcast can be downloaded from the ADA Restoration Act blog.
Why the title “Heart-Poundingly Important”? Larry points out in [...]
Have YOU been affected by a disaster or emergency situation? If so, YOUR story of how you were affected could help other Deaf people (and people with disabilities) in the United States benefit from better emergency planning in the future.
I mentioned in this space yesterday, and am reminding again today: The US National [...]
For those of you who are keeping an eye on blog posts about the ADA Restoration Act of 2007, there have been two new blog posts on that subject — just follow the links below. Or, if you want to see more, check out my more comprehensive listing of blog posts on the ADA Restoration [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )What happens to Deaf people during disasters like the events of September 11, 2001, or during the Katrina hurricane? What happens to deaf and hard of hearing people, or people with disabilities generally? Unfortunately, we know that accommodations for people with disabilities generally tend to be very limited. How many wheelchair users died on Sept [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )When Deaf people run into rules and regulations and systems and services that just aren’t designed for us — or for deaf or hard of hearing people, or people with disabilities in general–that can be immensely frustrating. And even more so when these barriers mean that we have to end up paying more for [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Two podcasts produced by “Day in Washington” may be useful for learning more about the ADA Restoration Act. And, yes, it is available not only in audio file but also in transcript form.
The Disability Policy Podcast focuses on a range of disability-related policy issues, usually discussing one narrow topic or news article in each [...]
According to the ADA Restoration Act blog, 7 more Congressional representatives become co-sponsors for the ADA Restoration Act. The ADA Restoration Act blog says they joined probably because many advocates were busy writing letters and making phone calls to their legislators during the August recess.
This brings the total of co-sponsors up to 188. We need [...]
Last night, I made a post that responded to someone who was still confused about how the courts have damaged the ADA and how the ADA Restoration Act is meant to fix it. I responded as a post because I figure there are probably other people out there who are just as confused as this [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Someone recently posted a comment at Reunify Gally saying that some of my posts on the ADA Restoration Act have been hard to understand. I apologize for this. I will try to work on a better post to explain the issues maybe later this week or weekend.
But in the meantime, I wrote [...]
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