Americans with Disabilities Act: Protecting and Accommodating Special Populations - Part 1

Americans with Disabilities Act: Protecting and Accommodating Special Populations - Part 1 is organized by AAACEUs. This Course has been approved for a maximum of Credit Hours: 6.

Course Overview:
This class will present an overview of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), who is protected by the law, and the requirements for businesses, schools and other public entities. After a reintroduction of the law, special populations and the protections that the law gives for those people will be discussed. We will cover the following special populations: autism, alcoholism & drug addiction, mental illness, intellectual disability, PTSD, veterans, and service animals. 

Course Objectives:
• Describe the protections under the law and those whom the law protects
• Define what constitutes a "reasonable accommodation"
• Explain what exceptions exist in the ADA law
• List those "special populations" protected under the ADA and some "reasonable accommodations" for those special disabilities.

Course Outline:
• Overview and history of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Special populations protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
1. Autism
2. Alcoholism/ drug addiction
3. Mental illness
4. Intellectual disability
5. PTSD
6. Veterans
7. Service animals