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Direct linkMarco Tarantino; Jared Reyes – Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2024
The most recent data on the labor force participation rate of individuals who identify as being blind or having vision loss in the United States indicate it is approximately 44%. In 2014, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs promulgated regulations pertaining to Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to address the continued…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Disabilities, Blindness, Visual Impairments
Download full textNational Council on Disability, 2020
NCD conducted a comprehensive analysis of the AbilityOne Program to determine whether it promotes Congress' goal of improving employment opportunities for people who are blind or have significant disabilities. Today, the program is made of a government-appointed Commission and staff, three central nonprofit agencies (CNAs) that facilitate the…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Federal Legislation, Employment, Purchasing
Smith, Lachelle; Vasile, Emily – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2021
The ability for students with visual impairments to perform independent living skills is essential for the successful transition from youth to adulthood. Although independent living skills are required to be taught by the teacher of students with visual impairments (TVI) in the expanded core curriculum (ECC), many of these skills are introduced as…
Descriptors: Independent Living, Cooperative Planning, Visual Impairments, Daily Living Skills
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education, 2013
Section 107 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Rehabilitation Act), requires the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) to conduct annual reviews and periodic on-site monitoring of programs authorized under Title I of the Rehabilitation Act to determine whether a state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agency is…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Vocational Rehabilitation, Compliance (Legal)
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education, 2013
Section 107 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Rehabilitation Act), requires the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) to conduct annual reviews and periodic on-site monitoring of programs authorized under Title I of the Rehabilitation Act to determine whether a state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agency is…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Vocational Rehabilitation, Compliance (Legal)
Booth, Char – Library Journal, 2010
If digital literacy is exploding, the visually disabled are taking the shrapnel. The author wagers that most librarians consider themselves committed to accessibility and make individual and organizational efforts to comply with (and often exceed) the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in their buildings and the Rehabilitation Act Section 508…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Advocacy, Public Sector, Librarians
Peer reviewedByerley, Suzanne L.; Chambers, Mary Beth – Library Hi Tech, 2002
Examined the accessibility of two Web-based abstracting and indexing services by blind users using screen-reading programs based on guidelines from the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines by the WWW Consortium. Suggests Web developers need to conduct usability testing and librarians need to be aware of accessibility…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Accessibility (for Disabled), Blindness, Computer Software
Rehabilitation Services Administration (ED), Washington, DC. – 1992
This annual report (fiscal year 1991) summarizes information on mandated federal activities of the Rehabilitation Services Administration and related agencies under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The report is organized following the titles and sections of the Act. Under the Act's General Provisions are activities of the Office of the…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Agencies, Blindness, Compliance (Legal)
Institute for Rehabilitation and Research, Houston, TX. – 2000
This manual for participants in a teleconference on independent living for adults with disabilities provides an agenda for the teleconference, a list of trainers, and a copy of Chapters 1 and 2 of Title VII of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998. The objectives of the teleconference were to assist Centers for Independent Living (CILs) and…
Descriptors: Adults, Advocacy, Blindness, Delivery Systems
Peer reviewedSilverston, D.; And Others – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1987
The paper reviews legislation authorizing services to elderly blind and visually impaired persons in Florida, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin; determines use of those services; and makes recommendations for developing additional needed services. It also summarizes 25 independent living grants given to states under Title VII-Part C of the…
Descriptors: Blindness, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Delivery Systems, Federal Aid
Rehabilitation Services Administration (ED), Washington, DC. – 1982
The fiscal year 1981 annual report of the Rehabilitation Services Administration's activities under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, is presented; program operations, program development activities, functions of the National Institute of Handicapped Research, and other provisions of the Act, are described. Program operations include:…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Affirmative Action, Blindness, Daily Living Skills
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (ED), Washington, DC. – 1981
This annual report of the Rehabilitation Services Administration for Fiscal 1980 consists of five sections. The first section, devoted to program operations, includes information on the basic vocational rehabilitation program, services to the blind, rehabilitation facilities, and three specific programs. Described in section 2 are such program…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Annual Reports, Blindness, Compliance (Legal)
Phelps, William R. – 1980
In 1979 the National Research Council established a panel to study testing of handicapped people for selection and placement purposes in educational and employment settings. The study involved the review of relevant literature, solicitation of pertinent information from organizations representing handicapped persons and from professionals involved…
Descriptors: Blindness, Change Strategies, Civil Rights, Court Litigation
