This booklet provides questions and answers for postsecondary educational institutions concerning provision of access and accommodations to individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing. Questions are about assistive listening devices (ALDs), C-Print technology, real-time captioning, and policy issues. Preliminary information concerns the mission…

This manual identifies the essential design elements of modern, high quality learning environments and includes discussions on facility programming, management, utilization, evaluation, and planning for future technology. Classrooms examined include general purpose classrooms, lecture halls, seminar rooms, and specialized classrooms such as…

The Internet is a growing source of information for persons worldwide, but for many people with disabilities the Internet can be a confusing jumble of images, frames, scripts, and colors that make little sense. Although learning how to make Web pages accessible to all takes some effort, it is effort well spent for one very good reason:…

A 6-minute videotape shows ways that one newly-built high school (Century High School, Rochester, MN) accommodates the needs of people with disabilities. Various building and room designs are detailed showing both poor and good design provisions. The accessibility and usefulness of the auditorium control room, emergency exits, elevators, science…

Addresses specific mainstreaming methods for each category of disability, including issues of instruction, accessibility, attitudes, and support services. (SK)

Four types of adaptations facilitate the age appropriate acquisition of recreational skills in severely handicapped persons: material, procedural/rule, skill sequence, and facility adaptations. A case study illustrates systematic instruction, programmatic adaptations, and materials modification, to teach a photography skill to a multiply…

The New Jersey State Regional Day School for the Handicapped is designed to be noninstitutional in appearance and sensitive to children's needs. The school design was developed through research, investigation, and observation by the architects. (Author/MLF)

Reviews the economic issues related to hiring the handicapped and includes information for employers regarding insurance rates, attendance rates, production levels, and job-accommodation issues, as well as potential financial benefits from tax credits, federal funding of Projects With Industry, and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.…

Accessibility for handicapped persons needs to be increased for meetings and conferences so that these individuals can be permitted to make contributions and to participate more fully. Ideas are given for planning and designing recreation and park facilities and developing programs in which all members of the community can participate. (JN)

A recent trend in community recreation programing is to implement special fitness programs for the disabled. However, physical fitness programing should present the opportunity for the disabled individual to move toward his optimal level of functioning and to return to a normal healthful lifestyle. (JN)

Describes several ways of encouraging the handicapped to visit museums, including ways to reach this audience, increasing the accessibility of exhibits, and using photography aids for the visually impaired. (CS)

Most of the information available thus far about accommodation in educational programs has concerned building design and has been directed toward administrators. However, individual teachers can do a great deal on their own to make their classes more accessible to students with disabilities. (LRA)

The Standards for Industrial Arts Programs Project sought to determine what kinds of facilities were in existence, what facilities were being planned, and how existing facilities had been modified to accommodate students with special needs. (LRA)

Describes several programs that were developed by staff at the Cleveland (Ohio) Public Library to be accessible to users with disabilities. Highlights include a Braille reading program; sensory garden; poetry club; book club based on talking books; wheelchair athletics; touching museum artifacts; and a mobile library for users who could not visit…

Discussion of trends in the American Association on Mental Retardation's definition of mental retardation notes a shift toward a support paradigm and a definition stressing the interaction between a person's independent functioning and the various contexts of the person's life. The current definition is seen to promote greater access to the…