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2. ADA Signs - Wikipedia

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   The term "ADA Signs" has come into common use in the architectural, construction and signage industries with the advent of the Americans With Disabilities Act, or ADA.The Americans with Disabilities Act regulates accessibility; and includes requirements for signage that is conveniently located and easy to read both visually and through tactile touch.

3. International Symbol of Access - Wikipedia

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   In the late 1960s, with the rise of universal design, there grew a need for a symbol to identify accessible facilities. [3] In 1968, Norman Acton, President of Rehabilitation International (RI), tasked Karl Montan, chairman of the International Commission of Technology and Accessibility (ICTA), to develop a symbol as a technical aid and present in the group's 1969 World Congress convention in ...

4. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - Wikipedia

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   President Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. House vote and Senate vote. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) authored what became the final bill and was its chief sponsor in the Senate. Harkin delivered part of his introduction speech in sign language, saying it was so his deaf brother could understand. [46]

5. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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   The following is a list of terms, used to describe disabilities or people with disabilities, which may carry negative connotations or be offensive to people with or without disabilities. Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [1] However identity-first ...

6. Deafblindness - Wikipedia

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   It was designed as a TTY for deaf-blind people and is also useful for face-to-face conversation. It has two components: The sighted component is a modified SuperCom TTY device. It has a qwerty keyboard and a single-line LED display. The display is regular size and is not particularly suited to people with low vision.

7. ‘Word of the Lord.’ Local houses of worship for the Deaf ...

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   The parishioners at St. Francis Borgia Deaf Center have a sign for Mulcrone, whom they call Father Joe: First they sign “priest,” swiping a forefinger and thumb across their neck, signifying a ...

8. Tactile signing - Wikipedia

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   As the decades progressed, deafblind people began to form communities where tactile language were born. Just as deaf people brought together in communities first used invented forms of spoken language and then created their own natural languages which suited the lives of deaf-sighted people (i.e. visual languages), so too, deafblind people in communities first used modified forms of visual ...

9. For deaf-blind son, dad waited two years for Green Bay to ...

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   A father has been pushing for a four-way stop sign to help protect his deaf and blind son. ... GREEN BAY — The world was dark and silent, but Ricky held onto the back of a hand, its shape he ...