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Greenbelt Manager: Denna Lambert, Code 120
Wallops Manager: Brenda Dingwall, Code 120
The Program for Individuals with Disabilities is responsible for ensuring that all programs, activities, and facilities of Goddard Space Flight Center are accessible to people with disabilities. This is achieved through many programmatic initiatives and individuals. The work of providing accessibility for people with disabilities is a shared endeavor. The program is also responsible for providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities.
In general, the program works to promote the hiring and advancement of people with disabilities and to advise both management, and people with disabilities concerning issues confronting people with disabilities in the workplace throughout their careers, from recruitment to retirement.
The program has coordinated efforts to establish a baseline for facility modification that has been the basis for selecting projects for funding. It established two internship programs, one for high school students and one for undergraduate and graduate college students with disabilities, and has helped to define a standard for offices throughout Goddard in providing products and services that are convenient and usable by people with disabilities.
The Center Director's Equal Accessibility Advisory Committee, formrely the Equal Opportunity Advisory Committee on People with Disabilities, works closely with the Program for Individuals with Disabilities to give guidance and support to center management regarding systemic issues that are faced by people with disabilities.
The Program has held Town Hall meetings, focus groups, and community forums to discuss various issues related to people with disabilities. We have provided TTYs and other enabling technology to Center organizations with responsibility to interact with employees, contractors, and visitors to facilitate communication and provide more effective outreach efforts to include people with disabilities.
One of the most effective and successful endeavors of the Program is a strong partnership with Center organizations that hire individuals with disabilities. The Program provides technical assistance and often shares the responsibility for providing enabling technology so that individuals with disabilities can perform the duties of their jobs for which they are qualified.
The Program is also on the cutting edge of providing assistive technology in terms of the latest advancements in accommodations.
The Program often serves as a model for other NASA Centers programs for people with disabilities and provides a great deal of support and cooperative effort with various offices and organizations at NASA Headquarters and other Centers.
Reasonable Accommodations for Individuals with Disabilities
Goddard Space Flight Center is committed to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities. Supervisors, managers, applicants and employees can find more information at our Reasonable Accommodation Web Page.
There, you will find:
NASA Procedural Requirements document, NPR 3713.1, "Procedures for Providing Reasonable Accommodation for Individuals with Disabilities"
NASA Form 1699 "Request for Reasonable Accommodation"
NASA Form 1699a, "Disposition of Reasonable Accommodation Request"
Reasonable Accommodations: Rights and Responsibilities - A Brief Guide for Managers, Supervisors, and Individuals with Disabilities
Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program (CAP), which is the source for assistive technology
For information about the provision of reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities, please contact Denna Lambert, Disability Program Manager, Equal Opportunity Programs Office. She can be reached at 301-286-0844, voice and TTY, or via e-mail at Denna.S.Lambert@nasa.gov.
NASA Section 508 Administrative Complaints
The following links were provided by the NASA Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity Programs.
For information about these publications, please contact Merv Jones, Agency Program Manager for Individuals with Disabilities at: mervyn.a.jones@nasa.gov
For NASA Employees:
"NASA Policy Directive (NPD 2081.1 "Nondiscrimination In Federally Assisted and Federally Conducted Programs of NASA - Delegation of Authority"
See especially Section 1.b (Policy).
"NASA Procedureal Requirements (NPR 2081.1) Nondiscrimination in Federally Assisted and Federally Conducted Programs of NASA - Discrimination Complaint Processing and Compliance Review Procedural Requirements
For the Public:
"Comparable Access to Individuals with Disabilities to NASA Information and Electronic Technology: Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 This pamphlet from NASA (Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity) is currently available only in PDF format.
 Construction Notices/ Traversing Barriers Alerts
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