fare $1.50 Student fare $1.00 Between 14 to 22 years old. High School/College ID required. Children under 5 years old FREE Limit 3 children accompanied by adult. Senior, Person with Disabilities and Medicare Card Holders 50 cents Personal Care Attendant FREE When traveling to assist passenger with disabilities. Transfer 25 cents Available on request when paying fare Good for two (2) connecting buses Valid for two (2) hours from time received Not valid for return trip Special restrictions
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The Americans with Disability Act (ADA) John Doe BUSI 526 October 1, 2011 The Americans with Disability Act (ADA) Introduction The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) prohibits employers with 15 employees or more from discrimination on the basis of disability. The Act applies to all aspects of employment, including applications, hiring, training, discharge and compensation, among others (Dessler 2011). In 2008 the Act was amended creating the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. The
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age of sixty-five (65). The aging of the population presents social challenges to support the needs of older people. These social challenges help the aging to live healthier, to be independent and to lead a productive life. There are older adults that are much more healthier plus they are more educated plus they are pursuing active lives. Whenever the older adults develop a disability or chronic illness, the older adults are unable to perform one or more self-care tasks. Whenever it comes
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Analysis of Labor and Employment Laws Situation A - Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) The FMLA was created in 1993 to assist employees in dealing with their personal family issues and work responsibilities. It allows a qualified employee to take an unpaid, excused, job-protected absence, for up to twelve workweeks in a 12-month period, to care for themselves or a family member with a serious health condition. Some of the covered conditions are: to care for a newborn child within one year
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Mission Statement My career mission is to become a practicing physical therapist in an outpatient clinic. By doing this I will help rehab people back to health after an injury. Vocational Objectives Some vocational objectives I have are to obtain a clinical position in a Physical Therapy facility that emphasizes Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Another objective that I have is to work for a professional sports team as their physical therapist. The final objective is to have a private office
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Building for Everyone: A Universal Design Approach Internal environment and services 4 Centre for Excellence in Universal Design Creating an environment that can be used by all people, regardless of their age, size, disability or ability. The National Disability Authority’s Centre for Excellence in Universal Design has a statutory role to promote the achievement of excellence in universal design in: • the design of the built and external environment • product/service design
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many ATD that assist individuals with daily activities such as feeding, bathing, dressing, toileting, and walking. ATD also work towards promoting safety while people independently carry out their daily living activities. A few examples of ATD include raised toilet seats, long-handled shoehorns and dressing devices, grip bars, reachers, and bathtub benches (Rogers & Holm, 1992, p. 121). Additionally, within the past several decades, many devices have been developed that can assist individuals with
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Medication To Treat ADHD Simi Linton in Reassigning Meaning defines Disability as, “ A physical or psychological condition considered to have predominantly medical significance” (Linton, 282). In Harlan Lane’s article, he writes about people who are deaf and how they now have the option to undergo surgery to have cochlear implants. These implants are electronic devices that stimulate the auditory nerve directly, and provide a sense of sound to one who is deaf or hard of hearing. However, Lane
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involves helping people to prepare and respond to emergency situation, including people with disabilities. To plan and respond to community emergency require involvement of everybody in the community, including people with disabilities in identifying needs in evaluating operational management. The issues identified with people of disabilities include notification, evacuation, transportation, sheltering, access to information, medication, refrigeration, backup power, and to mobility devices or service animals
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Americans with Disabilities Act 1990 The American Disabilities Act of 1990 is “one of the farthest-reaching acts concerning the management of human resources.” (Noe) The act extends to the disabled protections against discrimination similar to those provided to individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, and religion by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The ADA prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in employment, State and local government, public accommodations, commercial
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