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Saturday, May 14th | 10am-11am on Zoom

Our guest speakers Mardjon Hedayati, a bilingual (ASL and English) field office with the Washington, DC office of the EEOC, and Brianne Burger, Director of the Special Institutions at U.S. Department of Education, will speak about the ADA and Successful Accommodations. Join us in a Zoom meeting below.

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*After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Steve Gordon, DOJ

When: Saturday, March 19th
Time: 11 AM to Noon
Title of Presentation: “Americans with Disabilities Act’s Effective Communication Provisions”
Speaker: Steve Gordon, Civil Rights Enforcement Coordinator, Assistant United States Attorney, Eastern District of Virginia

The Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and its implementing regulations require covered entities to communicate, effectively, with individuals who are D/deaf or hard of hearing. Additionally, the Department of Justice has issued informative technical assistance publications that address the ADA’s effective communication requirements. Through this presentation, Assistant United States Attorney Steve Gordon will give an overview of the relevant legal principles and how they apply to common situations encountered by individuals who are D/deaf or hard of hearing.

Here is the registration link.

DUE TO RECENT UPDATES WITH THE CORONAVIRUS SITUATION, THIS PRESENTATION HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THIS SATURDAY. 3/11/2020 5:00PM

WAS SCHEDULED FOR - Saturday - March 14, 2020
WE (NVRC) WILL TRY AND RESCHEDULE AT A FUTURE DATE & TIME.

You have the option to attend in person or by Live Stream Webcast

NVRC will provide pizza! For those that come to our meeting room.

LIVE Stream Webcast
   Link will be sent to your email address by Friday March 13th.

Accommodations: Open captioning and sign language interpreting services will be provided for NVRC events. Other reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities are available upon request. Requests for such accommodations should be submitted via e‐mail to info@nvrc.org  Please allow reasonable time to arrange for accommodations.


“ADA Business BRIEF:  Communicating with People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in Hospital Settings,”

People who are deaf or hard of hearing use a variety of ways to communicate. Some rely on sign language interpreters or assistive listening devices; some rely primarily on written messages. Many can speak even though they cannot hear. The method of communication and the services or aids the hospital must provide will vary depending upon the abilities of the person who is deaf or hard of hearing and on the complexity and nature of the communications that are required.
Effective communication is particularly critical in health care settings where miscommunication may lead to misdiagnosis and improper or delayed medical treatment.

Link to publication

 

 

The university will have to remove free online content that doesn't meet the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Harrison Bergeron should enroll at the University of California-Berkeley. The federal Department of Justice recently informed the university that the online content it makes available to the public free of charge runs afoul of the Americans with Disabilities Act—blind and deaf people wouldn't be able to access it, according to the government.

In response, Berkeley is considering simply removing the online resources, since that's much cheaper than becoming ADA compliant.

You might say, well, Berkeley is a public university, and has a responsibility to make its resources available to all students, regardless of their disability status. That's true. But here's the thing: no Berkeley student has complained. The online courses have proven to be perfectly accessible to the entire student body thus far.

Read more . . . DOJ - ADA

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ADA and Healthcare for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Patients

Was held Saturday, March 19,2016

This was a well attended informational event, handouts and slides can be downloaded at bottom of page

Reuben I. Altizer Meeting Room
Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons
3951 Pender Drive, Suite 130 Fairfax, VA 22030

Presenter:
Steven Gordon, Assistant United States Attorney – USDOJ

Assistant United States Attorney Steven Gordon will discuss a health care provider’s obligation to provide effective communication to patients (and companions) who are deaf or hard of hearing . Ensuring equal access in health care settings is necessary to comply with Federal law.

Mr. Gordon has been with the Department of Justice since 1995 and many of his recent cases come under the Department of Justice’s Barrier-Free Health Care Initiative targeting enforcement efforts on a critical area for individuals with disabilities – access to medical services and facilities.

Mr. Gordon invites your questions and will discuss recent enforcement actions and settlements including those in Northern Virginia.

All programs are captioned and ASL interpreted
Programs are free and open to the public
Donations welcome

Handouts for this presentation:

 

National Public Radio
APRIL 18, 2015

Netflix's original series now have a superhero among them. Comic fans know Daredevil as a crusader. He's a Marvel character who, in addition to his superhuman abilities, has a very human disability: blindness.

Needless to say, Daredevil has quite a few fans with visual impairments — and they were looking forward to the show.

But until this week, Netflix had no plans to provide the audio assistance that could have helped those fans follow the show.

The FCC requires broadcasters to provide audio descriptions of many programs so blind people can enjoy TV along with everyone else.

But Netflix isn't a broadcaster — it's an Internet-based service. And they didn't plan to provide that audio.

In other words, the superhero would not have been able to enjoy his own program.

Robert Kingett, a journalist and activist in Chicago, is a fan of Daredevil. He's blind and also lives with cerebral palsy. And when he learned the show wouldn't have audio descriptions, Kingett recalls, "I said, 'Well, that's just utterly insane.' "

Read more  . . . Netflix

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