Guides and handbooks are reference manuals usually consulted for basic information or instruction, quick fact-finding, or for a concise and authoritative survey of a topic.
A second, updated, revised, and expanded edition of The New ADA: Compliance and Costs. This edition updated changes to the law and legal precedents from settled cases. A new chapter describes how to manage ADA, OSHA, and Workers' Compensation requirements. Includes an illustrated Compliance Product Selection Guide, plus a new chapter with 25 low-cost compliance solutions.
All Buildings, existing as well as new, must comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. This book provides a practical, step-by-step checklist method to assure compliance for all types of buildings, from offices and retail to hospitals and public facilities. Designed for the Architect, Owner or Facilities Manager.
This definitive handbook assembles in one place the most recent advances in knowledge about dementia, Alzheimer disease, and related disorders as they affect persons with intellectual disabilities. Diagnosis, assessment, treatment, and management and care practices are detailed in a practical manner making this a useful tool to both students and trained professionals.
Presents a model of empowerment and then applies it to seven areas that the have potential to empower people with severe mental illness, including treatment planning, housing, employment, and others. Provides practitioners, administrators, and policymakers with specific guidelines and actions to promote empowerment.
In this collection of 53 articles contributors describe their work in a range of aspects of autism and related disorders, focusing on diagnosis, development, neurobiology and behavior.
Rights of the Disabled explores the history and opinions surrounding the rights of the disabled, ranging from the formation of the League of the Physically Handicapped in 1935 to current efforts to enhance and modify the Americans with Disabilities Act. Contemporary case studies such as Burden v. Sacramento and documents such as The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 provide multiple perspectives and decisions surrounding the issue while also plotting a course for the future of legislative action.
Essays report on topics across the communication spectrum--interpersonal and relationship issues, people with disabilities in organizational settings, disability and culture, media and technologies, communication issues as they impact specific types of disabilities--and establish a future agenda for communication and disability research.