People who have been following news related to the ADA Restoration Act will have noticed that the number of co-sponsors in the House keeps on climbing (now at 244, past the majority vote needed), but the number of Senator co-sponsors had remained frozen at two.
No longer! The ADA Restoration blog now reports that a [...]
In this post you will find links to information about what the major presidential candidates say about disability (and deaf) rights issues; more information about the growing opposition against the ADA Restoration Act and people’s responses to it; links to blogs that can help you learn more about the ADA Restoration Act; and an important [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )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 )Ever been frustrated to buy a DVD that claims to be captioned–but isn’t? Ever been frustrated to buy a DVD in the hope that you can enjoy the special features, only to find YET AGAIN that only the main feature is captioned and nothing else? Or that only a few of the special [...]
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