Americans with Disabilities Act
Disability rights law
The Americans with Disabilities Act is a 1990 U.S. federal law prohibiting discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, public accommodations, transportation, and telecommunications.
Often abbreviated ADA, it requires employers and businesses to provide reasonable accommodations: The building added a ramp to comply with the ADA.
The law transformed American public spaces and workplace practices.
- Special OlympicsSports for intellectual disabilities
- Title IFederal education funding program
- reasonable accommodationWorkplace change enabling disabled participation
- undue hardshipUnreasonable difficulty or strain
- wheelchair rampInclined surface for wheeled mobility
accessible parking · curb cut · EEOC · job discrimination · Civil Rights Act · equal access · service animal · sign language interpreter
- U.S. LawsCivil Rights Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, HIPAA, ADA
- disabilityADA, ableism, amputee, wheelchair, wheelchairs
- Disability RightsADA, reasonable accommodation, accessibility, equal access, accommodations
- disability servicesassistive technology, inclusive education, special needs, rehabilitation services, personal assistance
- Federal Lawsfederal laws, congressional acts, acts, Civil Rights Act, Clean Air Act
Americans with Disabilities ActJim Crow laws
Post-Reconstruction racial separation statutes
disability discrimination · ableism · Nuremberg Laws · employment discrimination
Americans with Disabilities Actself-regulation
Managing one's own behavior
Americans with Disabilities Actinstitutionalization
Establishing as norm or standard
warehousing · separate but equal · isolation wards · social exclusion · special schools
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