Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Effective Communication: ADA and AT Act of 2004 Webinar

Please note the corrected time for this webinar is 2pm Central.
Date:
Thursday,
July 14, 2011
Time:
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Central Time
Duration:
(90 minutes)
Upcoming Webinar on
Effective Communication, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Assistive Technology (AT) Act of 2004

Please join the Southwest ADA Center at ILRU and the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) Catalyst Project for a webinar on "Effective Communication, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Assistive Technology (AT) Act of 2004" on Thursday July 14, 2011 at 2:00pm Central.

Presenters Wendy Wilkinson, Director of the DBTAC Southwest ADA Center and Andy Winnegar, consultant for the DBTAC Southwest ADA Center will discuss "Effective Communication, the ADA and the AT Act of 2004".

Session topics include:

Nondiscrimination mandates of Titles II and Title III of the ADA and the Rehab Act
Provisions of effective auxiliary aids and services
Importance of effective communications in medical settings
Insights into how a state AT Act project might support public and private entities' effective communication obligations
Sessions are presented via a fully accessible Talking Communities webinar platform. To access this presentation or for more information please visit our website at http://ilru.org/index.html and click on the webinar calendar link. Or you may access the links provided in this email.

We hope you will join us, Thursday, July 14th!

This webinar is a collaboration of the DBTAC Southwest ADA Center at ILRU and the RESNA Catalyst Project. The DBTAC Southwest ADA Center is a program of ILRU (Independent Living Research Utilization), at TIRR Memorial Hermann in Houston, Texas. The DBTAC is funded by a grant (H133A060091) from the Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR).
http://www.ilru.org/html/training/webcasts/handouts/2011/07-14-DBTAC/index.html

I got this in my INbox at work today... We are allowed to attend this webinar and it sounds of interest to me...I thought it would interest you as well. Notice the address 2323 Shepherd, Houston, TX... but its live and free online. By no means feel obligated to attend for my sake... By all means be aware its out there 07/14/11 at 2pm CST for your sake... There is a bit of "prep" needed to attend... So check it out if you like.
http://www.ilru.org/html/training/webcasts/calendar.html
http://www.conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs38ac3953684f
http://www.wiki.ilru.net/index.php/TCparticipants

*Those are copies of the links which failed to cut and paste off my email.

Have a BLESSED day!