The most significant news on the ADA Restoration Act is that there will be a hearing in the House of Representatives to discuss the bill on January 29. Several blog posts from around the web talk about the hearing and encourage voters–meaning, YOU–to write your representatives and encourage them to attend the hearing. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )No, as far as I know, Charlotte Chenoweth is not Deaf. But don’t let that mislead you into assuming that her story has nothing to do with the Deaf community. In her case, she is accusing her employer of denying her “reasonable accommodations” under the Americans with Disabilities Act on the basis of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Support for the ADA Restoration Act is growing–among dogs! (See below for details!) But Deaf humans (and American humans with disabilities in general) are still needed to help advocate for the ADA Restoration Act. Follow the links to the latest posts from the ADA Restoration blog below to learn how you can [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The story of Laura Sorensen (see further below) helps to highlight why all of us lose when the courts fail to interpret the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 as its authors originally intended–whether we’re Deaf or hearing, have MS or not, or have disabilities or not. The story of her court case [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )Will the Deaf community come together to support the ADA Restoration Act of 2007? If you browse around this blog, particularly my posts analyzing and presenting court cases that highlight the importance of the Restoration Act, you will see some of my past arguments on why Deaf people, too should support this important piece [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )I had been feeling a tad guilty about my two-week absence from blogging on the ADA Restoration Act. But it seems I needn’t have worried much because it has been a very quiet two weeks. Then again, what little blog activity there has been is interesting and well worth reading:
Day in Washington Podcast [...]
I somehow missed this one in my last round-up–it’s worth following the link:
Urge your senators to sign on to the ADA Restoration Act Now Nov 18 ‘07, the UnderRepresented urges readers to ask their senators to support the ADA Restoration Act and links to several websites where you can find more information. This [...]
The Senate recently held a hearing on the ADA Restoration Act. Unfortunately, that hearing has not been made fully accessible to deaf and hard of hearing people (write letters to the organizers to complain!). For one thing, the broadcast has not been captioned.
But Deaf and hard of hearing people, as well [...]
Have YOU written to YOUR senators to ask them to support the ADA Restoration Act?
If you have been paying attention, then you know by now that the ADA Restoration Act is an important piece of legislation that is meant to repair the damage that courts have done to the Americans with Disabilities Act [...]
Here are the latest blog posts on the ADA Restoration Act. Basically, the campaign to get this passed is heating up. So if you’re Deaf (or disabled), it’s time to start paying attention if you haven’t already.
If you don’t have time to read all of these links, then be sure NOT [...]
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