ADA Checklist

Hello.

My name is Leanne cole twits and this

is my building accessibility project using the A.

D. A. Checklist.

So I decided to use my group home that I work at as the facility for this project.

And the reason why I decided to choose my group home is because

I feel as though group homes should be the

one facility that are using this this 80 a checklist

and they should be following it to A. T.

All of our residents are physically or mentally handicapped and sometimes both.

So it's really important that this A. D. A.

Checklist is utilized throughout all group homes

no matter what company they're through.

Also a little bit of background information of my group home that I work at

only one of our residents.

So one of nine use any sort of walking device he uses a walker.

So we have no wheelchairs in our house.

However we get a lot of visitors, family and friends and those

Um visitors, some of them do use wheelchairs as well as walkers.

So we really want to make sure that even

though none of our residents are using wheelchairs,

we want to make sure our facility is 100% wheelchair accessible.

So priority number one of our 88 checklist is

approach an entrance and I just added this quote

an accessible route from site arrival points

and an accessible entrance should be provided for everyone.

This quote is pretty self explanatory,

no matter what physical disability you have,

you should be able to enter a building without any problems at all.

This photo here is of our main entrance to our house.

As you can see there is a very large wheelchair accessible ramp

and this is one brow that doesn't require the use of stairs.

It is a smooth wooden built wheelchair accessible ramp

for easy access to the front door.

This is the main entrance as well. So if you go through um

this door here you're going to hit the living room which is our main

entrance that everyone has to walk through in order to walk into the house.

There is no ramp within the house only this one that is outside of the house

And the handrail is 36" above the ramp surface.

The gripping surfaces would,

so it would be nicer if there was a different sort of gripping surface on this.

Wood is a little weathered down

so we probably do need to replace it a little bit. Just for safety reasons.

Handrail gripping is not round, it's more of like a square shape

And the perimeter is 5".

This is another look at our wheelchair accessible ramp

that we have in the front of the house

as you can see, it's very long. It looks in pretty good shape

besides kind of the railings like I said, need a little bit of a gripping surface.

Um It's very, very helpful for family members who do have

wheelchairs and our resident who does use the walker.

This is essential in our house to have.

So in terms of our parking lot,

there are 10 spaces altogether and two

of them are designated for handicapped bands.

Um in this photo there is a visitor here who parked in the space.

Um

Well one of our vans was out

but um

These are our two band accessible spaces.

The handicapped spaces are the closest accessible route

to the accessible entrance.

Um It's the closest spots that we have to that wheelchair ramp that I showed before

and

Part of the A. B. A. checklist is the route at least 36" wide.

Yes, it is 38" wide.

One thing that I did notice about our facility is that the

non accessible entrance did not indicate

the closest handicap accessible entrance.

And I think it's because there's only two entrances of the whole entire house,

it could kind of see the giant wheelchair ramp in the front.

So even though the checklist says that

you need to indicate where the handicapped entrance is,

I do believe it's okay in this instance,

just because there's only two entrances and one is a

giant wheelchair ramp right in the front of the house.

So in our group home, all of our door knobs look the same.

They're like this in the bathrooms and the residents rooms, staff rooms,

all of the rooms in the house have the same door knobs.

Um they're equipped with hardware operable with one

hand and does not require tight grasping,

pinching or twisting of the wrist and the door handle for

each door in the house is 35" above the floor,

which means 88.

Regulation

moving on to priority two of our A. D. A.

Checklist, which is access to goods and services.

So are accessible routes

leads directly to the main floor

And every hallway in the house is at least 36"

wide and can easily fit wheelchairs and other equipment.

This hallway looks extremely small, but we have that many wheelchairs,

many walkers right through this hallway with no problems

at all and there is no elevator needed.

Um In this house, this is a ranch style house,

there is a basement that is staff only that does require stairs,

but our residents are very good about not going down there

because they know it is only for staff to do laundry and get cleaning supplies.

This is an example of what our light switches look like in our home.

You can see the two typical ones on the right and the less typical one on the left.

That light switch on the left, you just have to push it and the light will turn on.

This indicates that the light switches can be

operated with one hand without tight grasping,

pinching or twisting of the wrist.

This is the main assembly area of the house which we call our living room.

This provides plenty of room for wheelchairs

um and other

devices

that people may have when they walk into our home.

As you can see in the right maybe you can't tell.

But in the right over there those are some dining tables that we have.

Um There's six spaces per table

and it's very easy for us just to take away one of the chairs

and it becomes wheelchair accessible

very easily.

Um

So wheelchair accessible spaces are 30" above the floor.

In the front seats.

There is at least 30 inches there at least 30 inches wide by 48 inches long.

And that's how much space there is available

for those who are sitting in wheelchairs.

If they would be wheeled up to this table.

We've had residents in the past

um recovering from surgeries,

use wheelchairs and we were able to just feel

them right up and they are able to eat dinner

with all of their other housemates.

Priority number three according to the A. D. A checklist is bathrooms.

So one out of the three of the bathrooms that we have are handicapped accessible.

I would consider all of them somewhat handicapped accessible. But this

um third bathroom is definitely our main bathroom that we would use if we

did have somebody who needed to use a wheelchair or anything like that.

There are no signs saying that this is handicapped accessible

but it's not really needed in a facility like this

there are accessible routes to every bathroom in the house. Not just this one,

there are no doors for single stalls,

but there's one big door which opens up to be very very wide.

The door can be opened with minimal force

and there's no hardware to lock the door.

The mirror over the bathroom countertop is not higher than 40" above the floor,

which means A. D. A. Regulations

and the sink can be operated without tight grasping or twitching.

And finally, priority for is additional access.

The only additional access that my group home qualified for

was the fire alarm with flashing lights and audible signals.

None of the other things such as water fountains or public

telephones or benches really applied to my group home in general.

But I did wanna finally say that my

findings were pretty typical. I think that microphone does a pretty good job

Of following these 88 checklists and being a

comfortable spot for those who do have disabilities.

I feel like all of our residents, it is their home and they feel at home there,

they feel like they're able to do just as much

as a typical person would do in their own home.

So I'm really thankful for the staff that I have there as well as

um you know, the maintenance that comes in and fixes

um you know,

broken railings or things like that just so that those residents

are able to live the life that they deserve to live

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