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ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) | Federal | Funding | One-Stop Centers | WIA (Workforce Investment Act) | Employment Organization Resources | Federal Employee AT Resources

ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)

• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's ADA Information
  This site contains the legislation on both Titles I and V of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Federal

• Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; Notice of Exercise of Authority Under 45 CFR 84.52(d)(2) Regarding Recipients With Fewer Than Fifteen Employees, Federal Register: December 19, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 244)] [Notices]
  [Page 79368-79369] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [www.wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr19de00-67]
  The Director of the Office for Civil Rights may require recipients with fewer than 15 employees to provide auxiliary aids where the provision of such aids would not significantly impair the ability of the recipient to provide its benefits or services. The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is announcing that it is exercising its authority under 45 CFR 84.52(d)(2) of the regulation implementing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. 794(a), to require recipients with fewer than fifteen employees to provide appropriate auxiliary aids to persons with impaired sensory, manual, or speaking skills, where necessary to afford such persons an equal opportunity to benefit from their services.

Funding

• Funding of Assistive Technology to Make Work a Reality: Funding for Work-Related Assistive Technology through Special Education Programs, State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies, Medicaid, Medicare and SSI's Plan for Achieving Self Support (2002)
  National Assistive Technology Advocacy Project, A Project of Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc. provides this guide as one of a series of articles written for benefits' specialists employed by Benefits Planning, Assistance and Outreach (BPA&O) projects and attorneys and advocates employed by Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security(PABSS) programs. The authors are James R. Sheldon, Jr. and Ronald M. Hager, attorneys with Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc. (NLS) of Buffalo, New York.
• Funding Assistive Technology to Make Work a Reality: A Review of Funding Possibilities Under: Special Education Programs, State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies, Medicaid, Medicare, and SSI's Plan for Achieving Self Support-Case Scenario (2002)
  National Assistive Technology Advocacy Project, A Project of Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc. The authors provide a case scenario in which the individual with the disability needs assistive technology (AT) to receive training, leave the home, travel to work, and perform work. In order to touch on several funding sources for children and adults, we have made the individual an older teen who can be expected to have certain needs as a young adult. Although the hypothetical individual is a person who is expected to go on to college, AT may be equally useful to the individual who will go straight from a public school program to work or a non-college training program.

One-Stop Centers

• One-Stop Employment Center Access Standards: Assuring Equal Access to Job Seekers with Disabilities in Missouri's One-Stops
  Prepared by Missouri Assistive Technology
• Assistive Technology Through Awareness in Indiana (ATTAIN)'s Program Accessibility Guidelines for Indiana's One-Stops
  ATTAIN obtained a $20,343 grant from Vocational Rehabilitation Services and the One- Stop Centers of Indiana to develop and provide program accessibility guidelines to the 15 One-Stop Centers in the state and to assess them for compliance with these guidelines.

WIA (Workforce Investment Act)

• Job Training Improvement Act of 2005
  H.R.27 Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) to revise requirements and reauthorize appropriations through FY 2011 for: (1) WIA title I, workforce investment systems for job training and employment services; and (2) WIA title II, adult education, basic skills, and family literacy education programs.
• Workforce Investment Act Final Regulations (Submitted August 11, 2000)
  Summary    Text version   PDF version
  The Department of Labor (DOL) issued a Final Rule implementing provisions of Titles I, III and V of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). Through these regulations, the Department implements major reforms of the nation's job training system and provides guidance for statewide and local workforce investment systems that increase the employment, retention and earnings of participants, and increase occupational skill attainment by participants, and as a result, improve the quality of the workforce, reduce welfare dependency, and enhance the productivity and competitiveness of the Nation.
• Employment Organization Resources
• Federal Employee AT Resources

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