For nearly 30 years, the Equal Rights Center has been working to ensure that people with disabilities enjoy the same rights, choices and opportunities as everyone else. The ERC approaches civil rights from multiple perspectives, using communication, partnerships and encouragement and, when necessary, resorting to the courts. Its comprehensive approach creates lasting positive change. The… Read More »»
Accessibility
Accessibility for People with Disabilities
November 1, 2011
All people, including people with disabilities, are entitled to access to all facilities and services. Over 54 million Americans have been identified as having a disability. People with disabilities represent a large and growing sector of the population, and almost everyone experiences a disability as he or she ages. People with disabilities are still sometimes… Read More »»
Making Meetings More Accessible
September 1, 2011
Accessibility is a broad concept. Some aspects are strictly governed by law, such as the number of accessible rooms or roll-in showers a hotel must have on offer. But much of what makes a hotel feel accessible to guests with disabilities is less sharply defined, such as a willingness to go the extra mile. That’s… Read More »»
Online Course Helps Healthcare Providers Improve Access for People with Disabilities
June 1, 2011
Ten percent of adults with disabilities in Kansas ran into barriers to health care access, according to the 2009 Kansas Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). Among that group, 14% said the restriction involved physical access, 6% cited disability-specific communication barriers, and 27% reported having been treated unfairly due to their disability. To help reduce… Read More »»
FCC Proposes to Update Rules Promoting Accessibility to Advanced Communications for People with Disabilities
June 1, 2011
As part of its implementation of the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (CVAA), the Federal Communications Commission issued three Notices of Proposed Rulemaking. The CVAA is considered the most significant piece of accessibility legislation since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. The CVAA has modernized existing communications… Read More »»
Removing Barriers to Health Care: A Guide for Health Professionals
February 16, 2010
Available from The North Carolina Office on Disability and Health’s Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute Format Booklet This booklet provides guidelines and recommendations to help health care providers improve the physical environment of their facility, as well as their personal interactions with patients with disabilities. In addition to physical barriers to health care,… Read More »»
A Brief Introduction to Disabilities
February 16, 2010
The Trace Center Format Online article This article provides a brief introduction to the major disability groups, some specific barriers to accessibility they encounter, and assistive technology devices that can help people with disabilities. The four categories of disability that are described are: visual, hearing, physical, and cognitive/language disabilities. Seizure disorders and multiple… Read More »»
Understanding the experience of place: expanding methods to conceptualize and measure community integration of persons with serious mental illness.
October 28, 2008
Community integration research explores community contexts and factors that encourage or hinder individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) from actively participating in community life. This research agenda can be advanced by using mixed-methods that better document the relationships between contextual factors and individual experience. Two such methods were applied to a mixed-methods study of 40… Read More »»
Health Education Research: Health Communication
August 1, 2008
Computer and internet use by persons after traumatic spinal cord injury. Goodman N, Jette AM, Houlihan B, Williams S. Department of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA 02118, USA. naomirgoodman@yahoo.com Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2008 Aug;89(8):1492-8. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether computer and internet use by persons post spinal cord injury (SCI) is sufficiently prevalent and… Read More »»
Healthcare Transition Research: Access to Care
July 1, 2008
Access to care for youth with special health care needs in the transition to adulthood. Lotstein DS, Inkelas M, Hays RD, Halfon N, Brook R. Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA. dlotstein@mednet.ucla.edu J Adolesc Health. 2008 Jul;43(1):23-9. Epub 2008 Apr 25. Comment in: J… Read More »»
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