Blog | Tag: Accommodations

Disability rights and accommodations exist to remove barriers so people can participate fully, not to give anyone an advantage. It is common to hear disability rights or accommodations described as special treatment. This idea often comes up in conversations about fairness and equal expectations. To understand why accommodations are not special treatment, it helps to first look at the difference between treating everyone the same and ensuring everyone can participate.

Living in a world built on ableism takes energy most people never have to think about. For people with disabilities, every day can feel like carrying extra weight. Weight that others don’t see but is always there. From small comments to large systemic barriers, ableism drains time, focus, and well-being. And no, you’re not imagining it.

Many people think assistive technology (AT) is just a convenience—like a high-tech gadget that makes life easier. But for people with disabilities, AT is essential for independence, communication, and full participation in everyday life.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has implemented new protections for individuals with disabilities in commercial air travel. These measures are designed to ensure passengers with disabilities can fly safely and with dignity.

Learn how to request a reasonable accommodation, how much information you need to provide your employer, and what to do if your request is denied.

Everyone deserves to have a fulfilling professional life, and that includes people with disabilities. However, achieving this is not always straightforward. Employees with disabilities often face unfair working conditions, and many are even forced to work in places called sheltered workshops, where they are isolated from co-workers without disabilities or paid less than minimum wage. This isolation is discouraging for workers with disabilities and results in employers missing out on the unique knowledge and talents they have to offer.

Disability Rights Florida wants to empower students and their supporters to take on their education. We hope that by making these terms more accessible and easier to understand, you’ll have the language and confidence to take on this school year.

As you prepare for your 2022 holidays, we invite you to consider how you can make your celebrations more accessible for all of your disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, survivor, and healing friends. We hope these five examples will be helpful to you as you prepare for a very merry holiday season.

What makes a reader proficient? Learning to read requires certain cognitive processes. At its most basic form, learning to read requires the reader to take in information and process that information. It is a mental process that requires some basic skills such as memory, attention, organization of information, retrieval of information, and interpreting information. Many students with disabilities struggle with reading because their disability affects these skills.

While the benefits from in-person learning highly outweigh those of online learning, safely transitioning students back to school for the 2021 school year must be the top priority. On July 9, 2021, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued updated guidance for COVID-19 Prevention in K-12 schools. These guidelines provided additional information regarding the promotion of the COVID-19 vaccines.