Download or read book Achieving Independence written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Achieving Independence written by National Council on Disability (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Achieving Independence written by National Council on Disability and published by . This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handicapped.
Download or read book Achieving Independence the Challenge for the 21st Century written by Linda Toms-Barker and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report calls for real change by & for real people. It is the result of recommendations developed by a diverse group of 300 participants at a National Summit on Disability Policy. At this historic gathering, people with disabilities representing the grassroots & national leaders alike, developed recommendations that build on two major accomplishments of the last decade -- the passage of ADA & the empowerment of people with disabilities, both of which embody the principles of inclusion, independence, & empowerment. Covers: civil rights, education, employment, technology, housing & much more.
Download or read book Independence Movements and Their Aftermath written by Jon B. Alterman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the varied outcomes that self-determination movements around the world have achieved, and in particular seeks to understand what factors promote better outcomes and what factors promote worse ones. Rather than focusing on the metric of achieving independence, the project evaluates the quality of societies after independence, including such elements as economic strength and political resilience, and it analyzes what factors contribute to different outcomes. The study finds that the single most determinative factor in the success of any independence movement is frequently beyond the control of such a movement, often relating to the global and historical contexts in which the movement finds itself. However, a whole host of factors are within the control of such a movement, but movements do not always seek to act on many of them. Activists become so convinced in the justness of the independence cause that they do not focus on actions that would contribute to greater success after independence.
Download or read book Promises To Keep written by National Council on Disability, Washington, DC. and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is the third in a series of independent analyses by the National Council on Disability on federal enforcement of civil rights laws. This report looks at the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) enforcement activities from 1990 to 1999 of four key federal agencies: the Department of Justice, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Department of Transportation, and the Federal Communications Commission. Findings indicate that while the Clinton Administration has consistently asserted its strong support for the civil rights of people with disabilities, the federal agencies charged with enforcement and policy development under ADA have been underfunded, overly cautious, reactive, and lacking any coherent and unifying national strategy. In addition, it is found that enforcement agencies have not consistently taken leadership roles in emergent issues. The following recommendations are made: (1) the Department of Justice should provide assertive leadership for ADA implementation and develop a strategic vision and plan for ADA enforcement across the federal government; and (2) the Departments of Justice and Transportation, the EEOC, and the Title II referral agencies should strengthen methods for the timely and effective enforcement of ADA. Appendices include a summary of the ADA. (CR)
Download or read book Departments of Labor Health and Human Services Education and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1998 written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 2266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disabling Interpretations written by Susan Gluck Mezey and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2005-07-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 was intended to send a clear message to society that discrimination on the basis of disability is unacceptable. As with most civil rights laws, the courts were given primary responsibility for implementing disability rights policy.Mezey argues that the act has not fulfilled its potential primarily because of the judiciary's "disabling interpretations" in adjudicating ADA claims. In the decade of litigation following the enactment of the ADA, judicial interpretation of the law has largely constricted the parameters of disability rights and excluded large numbers of claimants from the reach of the law. The Supreme Court has not interpreted the act broadly, as was intended by Congress, and this method of decision making was for the most part mirrored by the courts below. The high court's rulings to expand state sovereign immunity and insulate states from liability in damage suits has also caused claimants to become enmeshed in litigation and has encouraged defendants to challenge other laws affecting disability rights. Despite the law's strong civil rights rhetoric, disability rights remain an imperfectly realized goal.
Download or read book Designing Sidewalks and Trails for Access Review of existing guidelines and practices written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Departments of Labor Health and Human Services Education and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2000 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 2314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward Inclusion Meeting the Needs of Persons with Disabilities in the U S written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Designing Sidewalks and Trails for Access written by Peter Axelson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report focuses on how sidewalks and trails can be made accessible and usable by the widest possible segment of the population. Sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, a project to research existing conditions on sidewalks and trails for people with disabilities was designed in two parts. Part I, covers literature surveys, site surveys and interviews along with the history of accessibility legislation, travel characteristics of the disabled and engineering and construction design practices. Part II provides data on implementing the requirements of parts of two acts, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
Download or read book Promises to Keep written by National Council on Disability (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disability and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome written by Nancy G. Klimas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Clinical, Legal, and Patient Perspectives explores methods to assess severity of illness and impairment in persons suffering with CFS. It shows that more work needs to be done to develop objective measures of impairment that accurately reflect the patient's degree of disability. Contributors explore possible answers to the questions: How can a clinician quantify the degree of impairment? How can the legal and judicial systems weigh the facts and the impact of this illness on each person with CFS? How does a patient persevere and get past the barriers, despite his/her illness?
Download or read book Departments of Labor Health and Human Services Education and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2001 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Crippled Justice written by Ruth O'Brien and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-10-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crippled Justice, the first comprehensive intellectual history of disability policy in the workplace from World War II to the present, explains why American employers and judges, despite the Americans with Disabilities Act, have been so resistant to accommodating the disabled in the workplace. Ruth O'Brien traces the origins of this resistance to the postwar disability policies inspired by physicians and psychoanalysts that were based on the notion that disabled people should accommodate society rather than having society accommodate them. O'Brien shows how the remnants of postwar cultural values bogged down the rights-oriented policy in the 1970s and how they continue to permeate judicial interpretations of provisions under the Americans with Disabilities Act. In effect, O'Brien argues, these decisions have created a lose/lose situation for the very people the act was meant to protect. Covering developments up to the present, Crippled Justice is an eye-opening story of government officials and influential experts, and how our legislative and judicial institutions have responded to them.
