Many employers (and their lawyers) strongly oppose both the Americans with Disabilities Act and the ADA Restoration Act in part because they mistakenly assume that it is necessarily expensive to accommodate workers who are deaf or disabled.
I recently learned some interesting and important statistics that can help refute these misconceptions:
20% of reasonable accommodations cost nothing.
Over [...]
I just posted an action alert about an important international disability rights treaty, called the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This action alert asked people in the United States to write to YOUR legislators to ask them to support the CRPD. You can do this by following the link [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Just in case there’s any room for doubt: YES, of course this treaty will have a strong impact on Deaf people too, in the United States and all around the world. But here’s the catch: FIRST it must be RATIFIED.
I received this action alert a while ago but didn’t get to it [...]
Have you been sitting quietly on the sidelines watching the ADA Restoration Act work its way through congress? The Deaf community and others cannot afford complacency in this battle. Large organizations such as the Heritage Foundation have now come out strongly against the Restoration Act. And many bloggers have followed suit in [...]
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