Refers to everything around

Physical impediments that prevent individuals from functioning optimally in their surroundings

Degree to which an environment affords use of its resources with respect to an individual’s level of function

Refers to structures that meet prescribed standards for accessibility

Accessible to individuals with disability

Wheelchair symbol

Modified equipment to be usable by individuals with disability

Process of making decisions to build and environment based incredible research to achieve possible outcomes

Design of environments and products that can be used by all people to the greatest extent possible regardless of age, ability or disability

Design should be useful and marketable to people with diverse abilities

Accommodates wide range of individual preferences

Easy to understand

Communicates necessary info effective to other user

Minimize hazard

Used efficiently and comfortable

Appropriate for pt’s size, posture and mobility

Reflective of the importance of environmental accessibility, an internationally recognized _________ ______ identifies buildings accessibke to individuals with disbility

Requires all organizations receiving federal funding provided accessible programs

Expanded accessibility to the private sector to improve employment opportunities, as well as environmental access to retail businesses, cultural events, move theaters, restaurante, travel and so forth

This symbol indicates the location of telephones that have handsets with amplifies sound and adjustable volume controls

Used to indicate access for individuals with limited mobility

Guided tour, path to nature trail or a scent garden in a park and a tactile tour or a museum exhibition that may be touched

Persons who are blind or have low vision that makes the performing arts, visual arts, television, video and film more accessible

Used with telephone for communication with and between deaf, hard of hearing, speech impaired and hearing persons

Transmit amplified sound via hearing aids, headsets or other devices

Include infrared, loop and FM systems; portable systems may be available from the same audiobisual equipment supplies that service conferences and meetings

Large print printed in 18 pt or larger

Font for accessible print

Indicated a choice for whether or not to display captions for TV program or videotape

Indicates that captions, which translate dialogue and other sounds in print are always displayed on videotape, move or TV program

Preferred by many

Data from an examination of the environment are used to evaluate the need for specific recommendations and interventions

Corcoran and Gitlin identify 5 major areas of intervention strategies

Grab bars, reachers, adaptive eating utensils, canes

Lighting, smoke detectors, sensing devices

Widening doors, installing rails or ramos, removing doorway threshold

Placing locks on doors, removing throw rugs, moving furniture

Use of visual, or other sensory cueing, and energy conservation techniques

Providing the basis for accommodating individuals with disabilities

Work related, intensive, goal oriented treatment program designed to restore an individual’s systemic, neuromuscular and cardiopulmonary functions

Onsite visit typically includes

Guarantees civil rights protection and equal opportunity in the areas of government services, employment, public transpo, provately owner traspo available to the public, telephone service and public accommodations

Prohibits discrimination in housing on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, disability, familial status and normal origin

Promote adherence by providing accessible construction standards for multifamily housing units built for first occupancy after March 1991

Provided that access must be established in all federally funded buildings and transpo facilities constructed after 1968

Provided that certain buildings that were financed by federal funds be designed and constructed to insure that physically handicapped persons will have ready access to and use of such buildings

Stipulates the manufaturers of telecomm equipment or customer premises equipment shall ensure that the equipment is designed, developed, and fabricates to be accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities, if readily achievable

Wood or concrete

Aluminum or fiberglass