Training and Education
ADA Audio Conferences Series 2007
The DBTAC: Great Lakes ADA Center started the ADA Distance Learning Series in May 1999. The Center's goal was to create a platform for issues regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act and people with disabilities through the Distance Learning Series. The program allowed for specific topics to be presented by experts in an arena that was conducive to open discussion. Since then, the project has grown to be national project know has the ADA Audio Conference.
The following are new sessions that have been added to the schedule:
May 15, 2007 – ADA Implementation and Impact Study Report: National Council on Disability
Speaker: Julie Carroll, Senior Attorney Advisory, National Council on Disability
CEU Credits: CRC
June 19, 2007 – Performance VS Disability: What is the Difference?
Speaker: Sharon Rennert, Senior Attorney, EEOC ADA Division
CEU Credits: CRC, SHRM
July 17, 2007 – ADA Update: 17 Years Later
Speakers: John Wodatch, Chief, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Sharon Rennert, Senior Attorney, EEOC ADA Division
CEU Credits: CRC
For more information visit WWW.ADA-AUDIO.ORG. If you have any questions about the ADA Audio Conference, please contact the DBTAC: Great Lakes ADA Center at (312) 413-1407 (V/TTY).
Wisconsin Conference on Brain Injury
May 1-2 2007 – Green Bay, Wisconsin.
The 19th Annual Wisconsin Conference on Brain Injury, "Confronting Challenges and Creating Community," is scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, May 1-2, 2007 at the Radisson Hotel and Convention Center and Casino in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Speakers will cover such issues as socialization, substance abuse treatments and personal triumphs. Brochures will be available in mid-February. For more information, call the Brain Injury Association of Wisconsin at (262) 790-9660 or visit them online at www.biaw.org/.
Free and Helpful ADA Publications
The Americans with Disabilities Act can be a complicated law, but here are many concise and easy to understand booklets to keep in your lobby, share with local employers or government staff, or have available for your own staff. Just of few of the free and handy booklets include:
- The ADA: Your Employment Rights as an Individual With a Disability (published by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
- The ADA: Your Responsibilities as an Employer (published by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
- The Americans With Disabilities Act: Questions and Answers (published by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and U.S. Department of Justice)
- Department of Justice: ADA Guide for Small Businesses (published by the U.S. Department of Justice)
- Checklist for Readily Achievable Barrier Removal for Existing Facilities (published by NIDRR)
- Planning Guide for Accessible Events (published by the Center for Universal Design)
If you would like to receive some of these publications to have available in your organization, contact RFW at rfw@rfw.org or 608-244-5310 with the title and quantity and we will have them shipped to your location. Or download the following order form: ADA Publications Order Form (Microsoft WORD version) or the ADA Publications Order Form (pdf version).
Get Technical Assistance for ADA
The DBTAC: Great Lakes ADA Center provides information, materials, technical assistance and training on the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). Topics addressed includes the non-discrimination requirements in employment, the obligations of state and local governments and business to ensure that programs, services and activities are readily accessible to and useable by people with disabilities. This includes access to the information technology used by these entities including but not limited to websites, software, kiosks, etc.
The DBTAC: Great Lakes ADA Center's AIT Initiative, encourages incorporation of accessible information technology in K-12 and post secondary school settings. Accessible Information Technology incorporates the principles of universal design so that people with a wide range of abilities and disabilities can access information disseminated electronically.
The DBTAC: Great Lakes ADA Center is a program of the Department of Disability and Human Development under the College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago
For more information about the services provided by the Technical Assistance Specialist contact the DBTAC: Great Lakes ADA Center at (800) 949-4232 (V/TTY).