SPTE 203 Lecture 2: Chapter 7
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60 million with disabilities in united states. Law designed to ensure americans with disabilities are not discriminated against. Invisible disabilities: hearing disorders, speech impediments, blind people may look sighted, learning disabilities may be misinterpreted. Definition of disability: physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life events, record of impairment, regarded as having impairment. Reasonable accommodations: (adaag) americans with disabilities act. Rehabilitation act of 1973: helped define disability. Reasonable accommodations: comparable sight lines, dispersed seating path of travel, ramps, rails, and listening devices. Legally need 1% of seats to be handicap accessibility. 416 deaths last year due to ada regulations not being met. Cleveland, ohio highest population under poverty level with disability. 18% of people in south carolina have a disability. Tabernacle: no handicap accessible entrance, no easy use of bathroom. Tabernacle has 2600 seats, should have 26 handicap seats, only had 9, nick. Disability seats are not just wheelchair accessible seats.