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The Universal Design Initiative for Africans (UDIA) Stakeholder Series is an advocacy and education effort designed to ignite thoughts on how to promote the practice of Universal Design in Nigeria. The current series will focus on the role of designers in inclusion – how designers can ensure that…
Please join the October webinar trainings on complying with ADA and the intersection of the ADA and COVID 19 offered by the New England ADA.
Disability Language and Etiquette
Friday, October 30, 2020
Webinar
Virtual
10:30 am-11:45 am
30th Anniversary of the ADA – How times have changed!…
"All sports for all people.“
- Pierre de Coubertin, Founder of the Modern Olympic Games
The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum (USOPM) opened in Colorado Springs, CO, on July 31, 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, with the goal of becoming one of the most accessible museums in the world. With…
Sustaining Inclusive Design is a virtual symposium taking place on September 25th and 26th, hosted by Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and Loughborough University in the UK.
Valerie Fletcher, Executive Director of IHCD, will be keynoting a session on September 25th, titled, “Using the Potent…
Thirty years after the passage of the ADA, thousands of people in addiction recovery are unaware of their civil rights under the law. The ADA addresses alcohol and substance use disorders differently. Learn about these differences in an article by Dr. Oce Harrison, ‘How the ADA Addresses Addiction…
Today, more than ever, vital watchwords for museums and cultural organizations are Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — DEI. An “A,” meaning accessibility for people with disabilities, is sometimes inserted into the alphabet message — DEAI; but often, even if accessibility is proclaimed important,…
Virtual Documentary Film Premiere: Changing Reality of Disability in America 2020 on August 19, 2020
In this year like no other, it’s time to tell the story of the ways in which inequity and racism have shaped the experience of disability in America. We celebrate lives well lived and personal journeys pursued. But those stories remain the exception. There are millions of Americans with…
Coinciding with the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the passage of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Institute for Human Centered Design (IHCD) announces the Allan R. Meyers Memorial research project and documentary film “The Changing Reality of Disability in America: 2020.”…
Please join the August webinar trainings on how the ADA applies to people in recovery offered by the New England ADA.
Basic Architectural Plan Reading, Worcester
Monday, August 3, 2020
Webinar
1:00 pm-3:00 pm
Title I Reasonable Accommodations, CT
Thursday, August 13, 2020
Workshop…
The fact of extreme inequity and racism in America is no longer possible to ignore. The pandemic ripped away the truth of systemic racism in leaving Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPoC) more vulnerable to the virus and more likely to die. It also ripped away the fog of distraction that…