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Rehabilitation Act of 1973

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act

CCVA

The federal law that authorizes the formula grant programs for vocational rehabilitation, supported employment, independent living, and client assistance. It also authorizes a variety of training and service discretionary grants administered by the Rehabilitation Services Administration.

IDEA

On October 8, 2010, President Obama signed the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) into law. The CVAA updates federal communications law to increase the access of persons with disabilities to modern communications. The CVAA ensures that accessibility laws enacted in the 1980s and 1990s are brought up to date with 21st century technologies, including new digital, broadband, and mobile innovations.

The federal law that requires states and school districts to ensure that children with disabilities receive a Free Appropriate Public Education in the Least Restrictive Environment.

The child’s educational services and placement must be based on the child’s Individualized Education Program (IEP), which is developed by an IEP Team. The IEP Team includes school personnel and the parents of the child. The IEP is developed after the child is evaluated and his present levels of performance determined. Parents and students have procedural safeguards under this law to protect their rights.

The Television Decoder Circuitry Act of 1990

NAD

National Association of the Deaf

The Television Decoder Circuitry Act also requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to ensure that closed captioning services continue to be available to consumers as new video technology is developed with screens 13 inches and above.

The NAD was established in 1880 by deaf leaders who believed in the right of the American deaf community to use sign language, to congregate on issues important to them, and to have its interests represented at the national level.

DPN

Deaf President Now

The Result?

The students and their backers then presented the Board of Trustees with four demands:

  • Elisabeth Zinser must resign and a deaf person selected president;
  • Jane Spilman must step down as chairperson of the Board of Trustees;
  • Deaf people must constitute a 51% majority on the Board; and
  • There would no reprisals against any student or employee involved in the protest.

By the end of the week, the students ended their protest and proclaimed victory. All of their demands had been met and Dr. I. King Jordan was named the Gallaudet's eighth-and first-deaf president.

The spark that ignited DPN was the announcement on March 6, 1988, by the University's Board of Trustees that a hearing person had been selected as Gallaudet's seventh president. Two of the three finalists for the position were deaf, however, Elisabeth A. Zinser the one hearing candidate was chosen.

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

ADA

This applies to private employers and state or local governments as employers. The ADA is meant to prohibit these organizations from discriminating against persons with disabilities.

DEAF RIGHTS MOVEMENT

by Zoe Alston

You must file a complaint within 180 days of the discrimination.

  • Title I – Employment
  • Title II – State and Local Governments
  • Title III – Public Accommodations (Businesses)
  • Title IV – Telecommunications Relay Services
  • Title V – Miscellaneous Provisions

What's the connection?

  • Equality
  • Growth
  • Preservation of Deaf Culture
  • Preservation of human rights

Resources

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www.nad.org

www.gallaudet.edu

www.fcc.gov

www.eandblaw.com

www.ada.gov

idea.ed.gov

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