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CHLH 330 Final Exam Questions And
Answers 100% Verified.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): - Answers✔A law ensuring services to
children with disabilities throughout the nation. Provide early intervention and special education
services.
Similarities to Brown V. Board of Education:
This act is opposed to exclusion of children with disabilities
It believes in integration to the maximum extent appropriate
It believes in a least restrictive environment and IEP
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): - Answers✔Promotes Civil rights principles (1964 Civil
Rights Act)
Requires reasonable accommodations
Enforcement by federal bodies and individual lawsuits
It was part of a political debate called Protection of Rights (liberals) vs. Reality of economic
(conservatives).
It showed staggering evidence on discrimination and its effects.
Did not create new programs, but instead mandated private actions.
Championed by Key senators.
Basic protections contained in the five titles of the ADA: - Answers✔1. Employment
2. Transportation
3. Public accomodations & Public services
4. Telecommunication
5. Miscellaneous provisions
1. Employment: - Answers✔Rights of an individual with disabilities in employment settings. To
ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are protected from discrimination on the basis
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of a disability. As long the individual is qualified for the position she/he cannot be denied that
opportunity simply because of their disability.
Key terms that must be define before protection is accorded - Answers✔1.Essential functions of
the job: Person with the disability can perform the essential functions of the job held or desired
with or without reasonable accommodations.
Defining essential functions: - Answers✔Position exists to perform function.
Limited number of employees available to redistribute the function.
Function is so specialized that the incumbent was hired because of expertise or ability
Reasonable accommodation: - Answers✔Refusal to make an accommodation for a qualified job
applicant constitutes discrimination.
Types of reasonable accommodations
Modifying the physical environment of a workplace
Restructuring a job so that its essential functions can be performed
Part-time or modified work schedules
Undue hardship: - Answers✔Any action that creates "significant difficulty of expenses for an
employer given the size of the employer, the resources available, and the nature of the
operation".
Relative standard.
Economic burden on society in general.
Impact on morale of co-workers.
Modifications are typically inexpensive.
2. Public Services: - Answers✔The right of access to public services by individuals with
disabilities. Purpose is to prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability in all services,
programs and activities provided or made available by local or state governments. This includes:
public bus service, government meetings, public schools and universities, recreation and state
parks.
3.Public Accommodations: - Answers✔This section specifies that no individual shall be
discriminated against on the basis of a disability in the full and equal enjoyment of public
accommodations. Mandates that all the accessibility of all services, even those privately owned
and requires that all new places of public accommodation and commercial facilities be designed
and constructed so as to be readily accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities. This
includes: public gathering place (restaurant, bars, etc), Places of lodging (hotels, motels, inns),
Retail stores, and Social Service centers.
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CHLH 330 Final Exam Questions And
Answers 100% Verified.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): - Answers✔A law ensuring services to
children with disabilities throughout the nation. Provide early intervention and special education
services.
Similarities to Brown V. Board of Education:
This act is opposed to exclusion of children with disabilities
It believes in integration to the maximum extent appropriate
It believes in a least restrictive environment and IEP
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): - Answers✔Promotes Civil rights principles (1964 Civil
Rights Act)
Requires reasonable accommodations
Enforcement by federal bodies and individual lawsuits
It was part of a political debate called Protection of Rights (liberals) vs. Reality of economic
(conservatives).
It showed staggering evidence on discrimination and its effects.
Did not create new programs, but instead mandated private actions.
Championed by Key senators.
Basic protections contained in the five titles of the ADA: - Answers✔1. Employment
2. Transportation
3. Public accomodations & Public services
4. Telecommunication
5. Miscellaneous provisions
1. Employment: - Answers✔Rights of an individual with disabilities in employment settings. To
ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are protected from discrimination on the basis
1
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of a disability. As long the individual is qualified for the position she/he cannot be denied that
opportunity simply because of their disability.
Key terms that must be define before protection is accorded - Answers✔1.Essential functions of
the job: Person with the disability can perform the essential functions of the job held or desired
with or without reasonable accommodations.
Defining essential functions: - Answers✔Position exists to perform function.
Limited number of employees available to redistribute the function.
Function is so specialized that the incumbent was hired because of expertise or ability
Reasonable accommodation: - Answers✔Refusal to make an accommodation for a qualified job
applicant constitutes discrimination.
Types of reasonable accommodations
Modifying the physical environment of a workplace
Restructuring a job so that its essential functions can be performed
Part-time or modified work schedules
Undue hardship: - Answers✔Any action that creates "significant difficulty of expenses for an
employer given the size of the employer, the resources available, and the nature of the
operation".
Relative standard.
Economic burden on society in general.
Impact on morale of co-workers.
Modifications are typically inexpensive.
2. Public Services: - Answers✔The right of access to public services by individuals with
disabilities. Purpose is to prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability in all services,
programs and activities provided or made available by local or state governments. This includes:
public bus service, government meetings, public schools and universities, recreation and state
parks.
3.Public Accommodations: - Answers✔This section specifies that no individual shall be
discriminated against on the basis of a disability in the full and equal enjoyment of public
accommodations. Mandates that all the accessibility of all services, even those privately owned
and requires that all new places of public accommodation and commercial facilities be designed
and constructed so as to be readily accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities. This
includes: public gathering place (restaurant, bars, etc), Places of lodging (hotels, motels, inns),
Retail stores, and Social Service centers.
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