{"id":581,"date":"2007-03-04T23:13:36","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T03:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/03\/04\/access-for-people-with-disabilities\/"},"modified":"2007-03-04T23:13:36","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T03:13:36","slug":"access-for-people-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/03\/04\/access-for-people-with-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Access for People with Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just listened to a podcast from the King County Law Library about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcll.org\/aboutus\/publications\/podcasts\/#episode5\">disability rights law<\/a>\u00a0(Jan. 29, 2007).\u00a0I&#8217;d like to share two things with Shlep readers:<\/p>\n<p>(1)\u00a0The podcast interviews the judge who was cochair of the committee that produced\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsba.org\/atj\/ensuringaccessguidebook.pdf\"><em>Ensuring Access for People with Disabilities: A Guide for Courts<\/em><\/a> (Aug. 2006). This is a good resource not just for courts, but for people with disabilities and those who work with or serve them. It has a brief overview of types of disabilities &#8212; emphasizing that individuals need to be treated individually (a person with low vision who can read enlarged type needs a different accommodation than another person with low vision). It has practical advice for the inclusion of people with disabilities as parties, witnesses, jurors, attorneys. (The guide was excerpted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsba.org\/media\/publications\/barnews\/disabilities-aug.htm\">August 2006 issue<\/a> of the <em>Washington State Bar News<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>(2) These are the sites the podcast&#8217;s producers\u00a0recommend for information on disability rights law:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. Dept. of Justice&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/crt\/ada\/adahom1.htm\">ADA Home Page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabilityinfo.gov\">Disabilityinfo.gov<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/wex\/index.php\/Disability_law\">Disability Law<\/a>, Wex (Cornell&#8217;s Legal Information Institute)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just listened to a podcast from the King County Law Library about disability rights law\u00a0(Jan. 29, 2007).\u00a0I&#8217;d like to share two things with Shlep readers: (1)\u00a0The podcast interviews the judge who was cochair of the committee that produced\u00a0Ensuring Access for People with Disabilities: A Guide for Courts (Aug. 2006). This is a good resource [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[896,897],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-consumer","category-resources-practitioner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}