.
Southwest ADA Center
Call 1-800-949-4ADA
for Technical Assistance
- Who We Are
- DBTAC News
- DBTAC Trainings
- Webcasts
- Podcasts
- Disability Law Index
- DBTAC Publications
- DBTAC Resources
- Contact Us
DBTAC Southwest ADA Center
The DBTAC Southwest ADA Center (Southwest DBTAC) is the Southwest's leading resource on the Americans with Disabilities Act and related disability rights laws.
The DBTAC is one of ten Disability and Business Technical Assistance Centers (DBTACs) funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR).
The DBTAC serves a wide range of audiences who are interested in or impacted by these laws, including employers, businesses, government agencies, schools and people with disabilities. Expert staff members are available to provide training and publications and to respond to your inquiries via the toll free hotline 800-949-4232!
Announcements:
- President Bush signs the ADA Amendments Act into Law
- New EEOC Publication on Applying Performance and Conduct Standards to Employees with Disabilities
- First ASL podcast from Disability Law Lowdown!
- U.S. Department of Justice Proposes New Rules to Implement the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Take Part in a Study of Community Participation by Washington University
- First Ever ASL Video Podcast Launch from Disability Law Lowdown
- New Commercial: Employing People with Disabilities (needs windows media player)
The DBTAC's mission is to promote:
- Voluntary compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
The DBTAC provides three core services — technical assistance, training and materials dissemination. Activities designed to carry out the mission in Texas, Arkansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Louisiana are facilitated through the home office in Houston, TX as well as affiliations and partnerships.
The DBTAC Southwest ADA Center is a program of ILRU (Independent Living Research Utilization), at Memorial Hermann | TIRR in Houston, Texas. The DBTAC is funded by a grant (#H133D60012) from the Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research ( NIDRR). NIDRR is not an enforcement agency. The information herein is intended solely as informal guidance and is neither a determination of your legal rights or responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), nor binding on any agency with enforcement responsibility under the ADA and other disability-related laws.
|
This site is hosted as a courtesy of Baylor College of Medicine - Privacy Notices