SPH-R 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hearing Aid, Reasonable Accommodation, Closed Captioning
Inclusion
ADA
• Recreation Access Rights under ADA
o The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has changed the way in
which public and private agencies provide recreation opportunities.
▪ Title I: Employment
▪ Title II: State and local government
▪ Title III: Public accommodations
▪ Title IV: Telecommunications
▪ Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions
• The ADA
o Signed July 26, 1990 (Went into effect 2 years later)
o ADA Definition of individual with a disability
▪ A disability is a physical or mental impairment that
substantially limits a major life activity, such as walking,
seeing, hearing, learning, breathing, caring for ones self or
working
▪ This does not include anyone who is currently engaged in the
illegal use of drugs.
▪ It does cover individuals who are currently enrolled or who
have successfully completed a drug or alcohol rehabilitation
program
• Title I: Employment
o Discrimination includes:
▪ Segregation due to disability
▪ Using tests that may screen out individuals with disabilities
▪ Discrimination based on spouse or significant other
▪ Deny employment on the basis of the need to make
“reasonable accommodations”
• Reasonable Accommodations
o The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires an employer with
15 or more employees to provide reasonable accommodation for
individuals with disabilities, unless it would cause undue hardship.
o A reasonable accommodation is any change in the work environment
or in the way a job is performed that enables a person with a disability
to enjoy equal employment opportunities.
o There are three categories of "reasonable accommodations":
▪ Changes to a job application process
▪ Changes to work environment, or the way a job is usually done
▪ Changes that enable an employee with a disability to enjoy
equal benefits and privileges of employment (such as access to
training)
o Employers are not required to provide personal items (eyeglasses,
wheelchairs, hearing aid)
