In February, the Great Lakes ADA Center and other members of the ADA National Network hosted several free online trainings on the Americans with Disabilities Act, the ADA, and other disability topics.
The materials and recordings are available at no cost.
ADA Live! (WADA) is a free monthly show broadcast nationally on the Internet hosted by the Southeast ADA Center.
From the Southeast ADA Center: The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted people with disabilities. by causing crisis situations in many aspects of our lives, including medical care, education, mental health, and the loss of caregivers and support networks. In order to fight the pandemic, government agencies and private companies are often using technology to keep track of how public and private behavior is affecting the spread of the virus. Historically, people with disabilities, minority populations and the LGBTIQ+ community are often the least protected from this type of public monitoring and data overreach.
To Listen to archive: https://www.adalive.org/episode90
This is a free webinar offered through a collaboration of the U.S. Access Board, the Great Lakes ADA Center, and the ADA National Network.
From the Great Lakes ADA Center: A key component of accessibility is vertical access between changes in level along accessible routes. This session will explain where vertical access is required (or exempted) in the ADA and the ABA Accessibility Standards and how it can be achieved. Presenters will review requirements in the standards for ramps, curb ramps, elevators, and platform lifts, as well as clarify common sources of confusion when providing vertical access.
Archive: https://accessibilityonline.org/ao/archives/110890
This special session is hosted by the Great Lakes ADA Center on behalf of the ADA National Network.
From the Great Lakes ADA Center: On December 10, 2020, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) issued a final rule to amend the Department’s Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA) regulation on the transport of service animals by air carriers. The effective date for this rule is January 11th, 2021. Join us as our speaker provides details on the new rule, including a summary of the changes to the definition of a service animal in air transportation (once the rule becomes effective, airlines can treat emotional support animals as pets), DOT forms that airlines air carriers may require from passengers traveling with service animals, prohibitions against breed limitations, along with other changes. Following the presentation, participants will have an opportunity to ask questions of the speaker.
Archive: https://accessibilityonline.org/ADA-Audio/archives/110909
This is a free webinar offered through the Mid-Atlantic ADA Center, one of the 10 Regional ADA Centers in the ADA National Network that provides training and technical assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act.
From the Mid-Atlantic ADA Center: This webinar will feature a COVID-19 discussion with ADA Coordinators from different parts of the Mid-Atlantic Region (Maryland, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, West Virginia). They will share lessons learned and best practices.
Archive: https://www.adainfo.org/training/ada-coordinators-talk-covid
This special session is hosted by the Great Lakes ADA Center on behalf of the ADA National Network.
From the Great Lakes ADA Center: Soon after the Department of Justice issued the 2010 ADA Title II regulations and the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design, the New England ADA Center created two important tools to assist with compliance. The 2010 Standards include design specifications for recreation areas such as playgrounds, swimming pools, boating docks and fishing piers. There were no standards for recreation areas in the 1991 Standards. Since public accommodations have an ongoing obligation to remove barriers and state and local governments have an obligation to ensure program accessibility it was important to create a checklist that includes those elements as well as other public areas such as toilet rooms assembly areas . The ADA Title II Action Guide for State and Local Governments replaces the 1995 version. It is web-based and assists state and local governments to understand their obligations and to conduct a self-evaluation and develop a transition plan. It is multi-layered and has a lot of helpful information, forms for conducting a self-evaluation and developing the plan. During this session we will review both of those tools to provide a deeper understanding of how they can be helpful to both public accommodations and state and local governments.
Archive: https://accessibilityonline.org/ADA-Audio/archives/110904
This is a free webinar offered through the Emergency Management and Preparedness - Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities Webinar Series, hosted by the Pacific ADA Center and the ADA National Network.
From the Pacific ADA Center: COVID-19 has disproportionately affected many groups, including the 61 million people in the United States living with a disability. As part of the COVID-19 Accessible Materials for People with Disabilities project, we invite you to join us for a webinar focused on strategies, and solutions for people with disabilities as they continue to live, learn, work, and play during the COVID-19 pandemic. This CDC Foundation funded project, along with technical assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), supports the Georgia Tech CIDI team on creating accessible materials and resources from existing CDC COVID-19 guidance. The specific targeted disability audiences identified as needing these resources are individuals who are blind and/or have low vision and need braille, individuals with intellectual and cognitive disabilities needing easy to read language, and individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing and need ASL. Additionally, resources and helpful guidance has been created for individuals living with mobility disabilities, their caregivers, and families. Presenters will share information about this project including statistics on individuals living with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, history of the project, and real-time resources for you as we collectively work to distribute this vital health information to those who need it most.
Archive: http://adapresentations.org/webinar.php?id=171
This special session is hosted by the Great Lakes ADA Center on behalf of the ADA National Network.
From the Great Lakes ADA Center: The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires delivery of services in a way that ensures that all people have an equal opportunity to achieve the full benefit of a program or service (Title II or Title III). In health care, this means equitable access to services and programs to people with disabilities must be provided. This applies to modification in policies, practices, and procedures, effective communication, and the physical accessibility of facilities.
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected many individuals by causing crisis and disparate situations in daily life. The 61 million people in the United States living with a disability have been overly impacted in the areas of medical care, education, mental health, and the loss of caregivers and support networks.
In this webinar, discover information, training, and publications from the ADA National Network on health care access under the ADA. From presenters of the Northwest and Southeast ADA Centers, learn about disability rights under the ADA and how they apply in the COVID-19 pandemic, including timely resources on accessibility at drive-thru medical sites; face mask policies and the ADA; and health care equity. Presenters from the Pacific ADA Center will provide an overview the Webinar Series: Health Care and the ADA-Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities and highlight fact sheets on the topics of accessible facilities, employment, and non-discrimination in medical care.
Archive: https://accessibilityonline.org/ADA-Audio/archives/110916
This is a free webinar offered through the Healthcare and the ADA-Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities Webinar Series, hosted by the Pacific ADA Center.
Excerpt from the Pacific ADA Center: This presentation will review the evidence for health care disparities affecting people with disabilities. It will then introduce a recent nationwide survey of physicians from 7 specialties about their experiences with and perceptions of caring for patients with disability. The results presentation will focus on physicians' perceptions of people with disability, their confidence about providing equal care to these patients, and whether they welcome patients with disability into their practices. The survey results raise questions about whether biased attitudes among physicians might contribute to health care disparities for people with disability.
Archive: http://adapresentations.org/healthcare/webinar.php?id=19
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