The US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division just released a report detailing its work on disability rights. The report highlights the fact that the Department of Justice created more than 12,000 new housing opportunities for people with disabilities in fiscal year 2005. According to the report, “this is more than three times the […]
The Americans with Disabilities Act states that employers must fulfill a disabled employee’s request for accomodation, so as that request is “reasonable.”
Below I’ve posted an interesting outline of two Massachusetts cases that demonstrate the circumstances that may be considered when an employee requests specific accomodations for his or her disability. At issue in […]
Check out this Press Release.
Distributed by RAMP (the Restore Access to Mobility Partnership), it attempts to outline new “interim rules” being imposed by CMS. I would have liked to report the progress being outlined here, but the syntax they use is utterly confusing.
It’s almost as if the public isn’t meant to understand […]
In a letter to the editor that was supposedly published in the October 15, 2005 edition of the Toronto Star, a supporter of Segway usage on public sidewalks in Toronto argued that Segways, which are barred from Toronto’s sidewalks since city lawyers have ruled them ‘motor vehicles’, should be allowed on the sidewalks since electric […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have recently made some positive changes to their scooter accessibility rules and limitations. In May 2005, CMS announced that MAE (Mobility Assistive Equipment) is available to “beneficiaries who have a personal mobility deficit sufficient to impair their participation in mobility-related activities of daily living such as […]