ADA Webinars Accessible Pools: Means of Entry and Exit

ADA Webinars, Accessible Pools: Means of Entry and Exit.

 

 

 

Dates

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 — Existing Pools under Title III of the ADA

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 — Existing Pools under Title II of the ADA

Times

2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. EDT

 

The Department of Justice is announcing free webinars that will provide information and technical assistance addressing the accessible pool entry requirements of the revised 2010 ADA Regulations and the 2010 Standards as they relate to existing pools. The first webinar will address the pool access provisions as they apply to the existing pools of public accommodations subject to title III of the ADA.  The second webinar will address how the pool access provisions apply to the existing pools of state and local governmental entities subject to title II of the ADA.

 

Registration

 

Register for the May 2, 2012 Webinar — Existing Pools under Title III of the ADA.
Registration opens on Tuesday, April 24, 2012, at 3:00 p.m. EDT, and is limited and available on a first-come-first-served basis.

 

Submission of Questions

 

Questions pertaining to the application of the regulations to existing pools may be submitted by registered participants in advance of each webinar beginning with the opening of registration on Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Questions may be submitted from a link provided on the registration page.

 

Please note:  The Department is unable to entertain any questions about its pending rulemaking, which is referenced below.

 

Rebroadcast

 

Each webinar will also be archived and will be available for rebroadcast on www.ADA.gov a few days after each event.

 

Background

On September 15, 2010, the Department of Justice published final rules that revised the regulations implementing titles II and III of the ADA.  As part of the revisions, the Department adopted the 2010 Standards and required that the Standards be used when modifications are undertaken to existing facilities to meet the program accessibility obligations of title II entities and the barrier removal obligations of title III entities. The 2010 Standards include provisions for accessible means of entry to swimming pools, wading pools, and spas in sections 242 and 1009.  The effective date for these provisions in the Standards as they relate to existing pool facilities was extended from March 15, 2012 to May 21, 2012 in a final rule signed by the Attorney General on Thursday, March 15, 2012.  The extension was provided in order to allow additional time to address misunderstandings that had arisen among pool owners and operators regarding compliance with these ADA requirements.  When the Attorney General issued the final rule, he also signed a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) seeking public comment on whether a longer period of time (four additional months) would be appropriate to allow pool owners and operators to better understand their obligations. The comment period on the NPRM closed on April 4, 2012. The content of these webinars is limited to a discussion of the substantive requirements of the ADA regulations for existing pools and will not include any discussion of the Department’s pending rulemaking regarding an additional extension of the effective date.

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Reading, PA – A family was told they were no longer allowed to raise a seeing eye dog because it conflicts with rules of the homeowners association.In order to earn a $1,000 college scholarship, the Yeagers’ daughter was raising Ives, a 4-month-old retriever mix, for a year. He would have stayed with the family until December when he would then be returned to the Seeing Eye program to continue being trained by professionals.But they were denied keeping the dog by the Oak Meadows Homeowners Association in Berks County because of a ‘one dog per household’ rule.

via Homeowners Assn. forcing family to return service dog in training – Philadelphia Animal Welfare | Examiner.com.

 

According to both the Fair Housing Act and PA Law on Service dogs they are actually in violation of the two laws. As trainers which includes of course puppy raisers as they too must train these dogs in basic and socializing. These association groups should really learn the laws both federal and state….

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Deaf puppy learns sign language

A deaf puppy has learned to communicate with her master using sign language.

Snowy was handed in to an animal charity because her owners could not cope with having a deaf dog.

However, within just three weeks of training, the four-month-old Jack Russell can sit, stay and walk, by responding to hand gestures.

The pet has learned a vocabulary of different commands including, sit, stop, lie down, roll over, come back and walk on.

Staff at the Dogs Trust Salisbury in Newton Tony, Wilts, hope that they will now be able to find Snowy a home because of her newly-acquired obedience.

Her trainer, Leslie Carley, described Snowy as “the brightest spark” among the animals at the centre.

via Deaf puppy learns sign language – Telegraph.

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Adam Phillips has had his heart set on a service dog for years now. It’s a wish that became a reality over the weekend when an anonymous stranger stepped forward with a generous gift.Adam, 20, has a rare neurological disease called Hereditary Spastic Paraparesis. He’s had a dozen surgeries and is unable to walk on his own.<snip>

 

<snip>So last Saturday they planned a car wash at a local Arby’s and got the word out a few days before in a newspaper story.The car wash started off slowly.”Nobody was coming and then a guy pulled up in a truck and he said, ‘I don’t want my truck washed but this is for you,’” Stephanie said.He handed her an envelope and went to wish Adam a Merry Christmas.”I started counting and counting and counting and it was just $100 bill after $100 bill,” Stephanie said.The envelope contained $2,000, an amount that brought Stephanie and her husband, Tim, to tears.The man who delivered it refused to give his name.”I have never met the man before, I asked him his name and he just waved me off,” Stephanie said. Adam calls him a “heavenly messenger.” The money will allow them to put a down payment on Scout and pick him up on Christmas Day.<snip>

via Stranger’s generosity means Valley man will get service dog | azfamily.com Phoenix.

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Oregon elections officials are turning to iPads in a new attempt to make voting as easy and accessible as possible for disabled voters.

In a small pilot program playing out during the special primary election to replace former U.S. Rep. David Wu, about 12 voters have filled out their ballots on Apple’s touch-screen tablet.

As far as elections officials in Oregon can tell, it’s a first for any state.

“We’re really at the edge,” said Secretary of State Kate Brown. “We want to make voting as convenient as possible.”

via Oregon looks to iPad to make voting easier for those with disabilities | OregonLive.com.

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PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Personal health records have been going electronic, and patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers are learning to navigate the new digital world of health information. Now three institutions are teaming up to discover how a large population—people with disabilities—can best access this information.

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Inglis Foundation, also based in Philadelphia, are partnering with Boston public broadcaster WGBH’s Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) on a joint project to explore how adaptive technology can make personal health records accessible to people with disabilities. NCAM is the project leader and principal recipient of the three-year, $600,000 grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Education.

The grant, titled “Accessible Designs for Personal Health Records,” is funded by the Department of Education’s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. The project began operations last month.

via Grant Will Help Bridge Digital Divide for People with Disabilities — PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ –.

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Independent Living: Employees with disabilities can work to dispel myths

Every October marks National Disability Employment Awareness Month. October also is also a good time to clear up myths and attitudinal barriers that still hinder people with disabilities who want to work from obtaining employment.

While the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 has made great strides in the area of employment for people with disabilities, 20 years after the ADA took effect, only one-third of Americans with disabilities were employed, even though more than two-thirds of unemployed people with disabilities said they would like to work. Clearly, we must even the playing field and how we do that depends on employers changing their attitudes about hiring people with disabilities — and that means getting the facts straight.

Here are some tangible ways to tackle the employment and disability quagmire.

via Independent Living: Employees with disabilities can work to dispel myths | The Ithaca Journal | theithacajournal.com.

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First off the dog was fostered and did not get killed from the comments I had read. Second off this story is really odd because anybody knows that you wouldn’t leave behind a true service dog even if you do not know all the laws. Not much to this story but about the dog being a pet and so called service dog.

 

Service dog and family pet Zeus in Staten Island kill shelter

Zeus is in danger of being put to sleep. This shelter kills 24/7. Zeus was a family dog since 3 weeks old. He is a year and a half old gorgeous white AmStaff.

Zeus is a registered service dog. Like so many others in New York, he will most likely die.

via Service dog and family pet Zeus in Staten Island kill shelter – National American Pit Bull | Examiner.com.

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Bill Status of HB3826 97th General Assembly

Amends the School Code. In provision permitting a service animal to accompany a student with a disability at all school functions, whether in or outside the classroom, defines “service animal” to include an animal trained or being trained as: a hearing animal; a guide animal; an assistance animal; a seizure alert animal; a mobility animal; a psychiatric service animal; or an autism service animal. Provides that reasonable accommodations must be sought for the use of a service animal to accompany a student with a disability at all school functions, whether in or outside the classroom (rather than the service animal being permitted at all school functions). Amends the Guide Dog Access Act. Changes the title of the Act to the Service Dog Access Act. Includes mobility, psychiatric service, and autism service dogs in the list of animals that must be allowed access to a public place of accommodation if such dog is wearing a harness, backpack, or vest identifying the dog as a trained service dog and such person presents credentials for inspection issued by a school for training guide, leader, seizure-alert, seizure-response, or autism service dogs. Effective immediately.

via Illinois General Assembly – Bill Status for HB3826.