Policy and Practice Brief: Funding of Assistive Technology to Make Work a Reality, Part II; Using the Americans with Disabilities Act to Fund AT

Hager, Ronald M.

Policy and Practice Brief: Funding of Assistive Technology to Make Work a Reality, Part II; Using the Americans with Disabilities Act to Fund AT

Abstract

This article is a continuation of “Funding Assistive Technology to Make Work a Reality” (Policy and Practice Brief #3). This brief reviews the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with a particular emphasis on how the ADA can be used to ensure that a person with a disability has access to needed assistive technology to do their job, or to ensure the individual has access to the job site.

Date Issued

2004-01-01

Keywords

benefits; developmental disabled; disabilities; disability; Disability Benefits and Work; EDIcat3-DBW; disability policy; Disability Programs; disable; disabled; disablement; disabling; earnings; employ; employing; employment; Federal Insurance Contributions Act; FICA; Guiding Principles; handicap; handicapped; heal; impairment; Insurance; learning disability; limitation; long term disability; maternity leave; mental handicap; mental retardation; OASDI; Old Age; Survivors and Disability; Old Age; Survivors; and Disability Insurance; PASS; paternity leave; physical disability; Plan for Achieving Self Support; policies; policy; procedures; public policy; public programs; recuperate; regulation; rehabilitate; rehabilitated; rehabilitating; rehabilitation; rehabilitative; retirement; rules; self-employment; short term disability; Social Security; Social Security Disability Insurance; special need; SSDI; SSI; statute; Supplemental Security Income; therapy; treatment; vocational rehabilitation; work

Types

article