ADA checklist
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ADAChecklistProject.docxAccessibility Assignment Overview
The purpose of this project is to provide students an opportunity to apply their knowledge about inclusion and accessibility. Students will complete a physical and programmatic accessibility survey of a recreation, leisure or sport based facility (e.g. park, community center, museum, hotel/resort, stadium, library, etc.) via this link: https://adachecklist.org/checklist.html#rec
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· The ADA Full Checklist including Priority Areas 1, 2, 3, and 4 should be completed (Full Checklist
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· The Recreational Checklist ( Download Word Fillable Form (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. ) specific to your selected site.
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can be used to help include people with disabilities in community recreation and sport programs and a summary of findings, recommendations for compliance, and an analysis of the spirit of the ADA will be reported in a paper. A letter synthesizing the findings will also be written to the facility manager. Students will also analyze how the ADA and accessibility in the US compare globally to other legislation/regulations for the rights and accessibility for people with disabilities in other countries.
Procedure:
1 Students may work individually or in pairs at one site to complete the checklist. If you work in pairs, you will each need to submit the completed checklist AND each student MUST individually develop, write, and submit their individual paper and letter on their own, submit your own pictures and floor plan/map. The only time you will be working together on this project is at the site to complete the actual survey/checklist.
2 Choose a recreation, leisure, or sports setting to conduct the Accessibility Assignment. Please note: FIU facilities will NOT be permitted for this assignment. In addition, Tamiami Park and YMCA South Dade will NOT be permitted for this assignment this semester. Please choose a local recreation, leisure or sports setting in your neighborhood. Examples include a park, a recreation community center, stadium, ballpark, bowling alley, fitness center or gym, library, museum, hotel/resort, etc.) The older the facility, the more interesting it will be for you. Also, do not choose a building that was newly built in the past year or a park without a bathroom.
3 Obtain the necessary permission from the facility site (supervisor, manager) to conduct your survey. Make an appointment with the appropriate staff person to conduct the survey. If they do not give permission, please let me know that you are changing your site. Sometimes this happens as they might not feel comfortable being surveyed even though it is for your educational purposes only. And it is okay if they do not want you to... just make sure you have another building/facility site as a backup and keep me informed.
4 Plan on attending the Adobe Connect Live Meeting for reviewing the assignment and answering questions. This will be held on Monday, February 11, 2019, 12:00 (EST).
5 Each student must submit your building name and address by Sunday, February 10th by 11:59 PM. Let me know if you are working individually or in pairs AND let me know your partner's name. Also, confirm that you have received permission from the facility site. You will submit this information in an assignment drop box in the Accessibility Assignment folder.
6 Before you visit your site and conduct your survey, open and review the entire Americans with Disabilities Act Checklist for Readily Achievable Barrier Removal. (The checklists are fillable Word documents. The Full Checklist Accessibility Survey is in course file folder or can be downloaded from the website provided. The Recreational Checklist is downloaded from the website provided). Specifically review pages 1-6 for directions of what you will generally need to take to the site, how to measure, etc.
7 You can conduct the surveys two ways: - You can print the checklist before you visit the site BUT you will need to type in the results into the Word file after you finish your survey - Or - if you can take your computer to the site, you can check boxes directly in the Word file(make sure to keep SAVING your data!). If you use your computer at the site, you will also need to take extra notes in a notebook that will help you when you write your paper.
8 Each student (even if you work in pairs) must submit a COMPLETED word file Checklist WITH your paper to receive credit for this entire assignment! Do not turn this in blank! Save the completed word file with your first and last name and the word "checklist." For example, alicia_pola_checklist.doc.
9 While at your site, each student must take at least 3 pictures with a digital device (camera or phone) of different areas you are surveying in your Checklist (e.g. parking lot, entrances, doors, ramps, restroom stalls, elevators, water fountains, etc.). One of these three has to include a picture of yourself at the site to get credit for the entire assignment! Each student will need to submit his/her own pictures as part of this assignment in his/her individual journal and directions to help you do so are provided in the Accessibility Assignment Folder. Do not submit pictures that are images of your facility site from the Internet, the pictures must be original, taken by you.
10 While you are at your site, obtain or draw a bird’s eye view/floor plan/map of your site or building and provide labels of areas. Your facility may also have a floor plan/map on their website you can submit. Each student will need to submit this floor plan/map as part of this assignment (if in pairs you can submit the same floor plan/map but submit it individually in each of your journals). You can turn in the floor plan/map several ways:
· You can scan and submit your original drawing
· You can redraw your plan digitally in a word document on the computer and then submit this
· You can turn in the sites floor plan/map from the website or as a photo (this would be in addition to the three photos you turn in above)
11 Each student must develop his/her own unique paper!!! It will be no less than six and no more than eight, typed and double-spaced with consecutively numbered pages (not including cover page or reference page). An individually written professional letter to the facility manager will also be included at the end of the paper but not count towards this page limit. The paper (with letter) is worth 25 points of your total grade for this assignment and points will be deducted for not adhering to the page requirement. Your paper will also be uploaded to Turnitin for grading purposes. If your paper shows plagiarism (from any content that is not cited from its appropriate source and/or that is copied directly from other students’ paper(s)) in Turnitin, you will receive a 0 for the entire project and/or fail the course.
12 Submission:
· In the Accessibility Assignment: Checklist, Floor Plan & Photos (Journal):
Each student will submit a completed: 1) Checklist, 2) Paper (with letter), 3) Minimum 3 photos, and 4) the view/floor plan map
· In the Accessibility Assignment: Paper & Letter (Turnitin):
Each student will also upload his/her paper (with letter) to Turnitin and it will be graded there (worth up to 25 points).
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ACCESSIBILITY PAPER AND LETTER
ACCESSIBILITY PAPER: (20 points)
Note: For parts b and c (barriers and recommendations to improve upon the barrier), you will need to indicate where in the Americans with Disabilities Standards for Accessible Design (i.e. the standard # in the checklist) the barrier/recommendation is discussed.
You must organize your paper using the following headings a-d (APA style):
a. Advantages: Describe those aspects from your survey of the recreation setting (physical and programmatic), that have been made accessible and would provide opportunities for inclusive recreation participation. Make sure to include the summary of the positive/accessible areas from each priority of your completed checklist with the Standard # from your completed checklist.
b. Barriers: Describe the physical and programmatic barriers that are present that would inhibit or limit participation by people with disabilities. Identify people with disabilities who may be influenced by these barriers, and how they would be influenced. Make sure to include the summary of the inaccessible areas and the Standard # in that area from each priority of your completed checklist.
c. Accessibility Recommendations: Provide a list of specific recommendations for how the agency could improve accessibility based on the barriers you found. Again, using the Standard #, designate which of your recommendations should be implemented to be in compliance with the law. Also, indicate which of your recommendations, although not legally required, would be in keeping with the spirit of the law (see Chapter 9), and would reflect a general commitment to inclusive recreation participation
d. Global Review of Disability and Accessibility:
1 Choosing a country and researching and reading resources:
1 First go to the following website: Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund-International Laws (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. : Choose a country you are interested in researching and that provides one or more specific law(s)/act(s) on disability rights. (Do not choose the USA.)
2 Also, review and read through the following websites to help you with your research and in writing the global review of the country and its comparison to the USA:
· Disability Rights International (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site.
· Disability Rights International (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site.
· Disabled People’s International- Europe (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site.
3 Additional websites or sources that you find. (Please message me if you find other sources that were helpful to you. There are always new sites out there!)
2 You will need to respond to the four following questions and/or discussions for the global review portion of your paper.
1 In your opinion, how did the Americans with Disabilities Act impact society the most and more specifically, people with disabilities?
2 For the country you chose from the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund-International Laws documents):
· Provide a general overview of disability rights for your chosen country.
· Discuss how the country compares to different areas you have read about and watched throughout the semester concerning the Americans with Disabilities Act (i.e. compare the ADA titles/content from Chapter 8: Respond to the Americans with Disabilities Act and compare this to similar titles/content from the law(s) for your chosen country).
· How do you feel the country compares historically (are they ahead or behind the US and how)?
· What do you think would be the outcome of the ADA accessible design survey (i.e. the checklist) of your building in that country? Provide two examples (Please note, you may have to do additional research to find the answers).
3 Describe what accomplishments society has made (across the world- inside and outside the USA) in overcoming barriers (attitudinal as well as architectural) for the rights of people with disabilities and on inclusion in general. On a global scale, what do you feel we still have yet to do?
4 What role do recreation and sports services have in helping society (the USA and the world) overcome such barriers in the future and enhancing the rights, independence, and inclusion for people with disabilities around the world.
Provide APA citations (if you paraphrase and/or quote) to support your answers/discussion from your course and assignment readings/viewings and from additional literature you may have discovered and read from your research for this assignment. Also, make sure to include the sources of these citations in the reference list at the end of your paper!
PROFESSIONAL LETTER TO FACILITY MANAGER: (5 points)
Each student must also write a professional letter (a few paragraphs) to the manager/person in charge of the facility. The purpose of the letter is to thank him/her for assisting you with this learning opportunity. Also, provide and accentuate the positive outcomes that you found as a result of completing the checklist and provide a brief summary of what you found that could be changed. This will be turned in as the last page of your paper after your reference list and is NOT part of your page limit. Do NOT send the letter to the facility. After I grade and provide feedback on your project, you can make changes to the letter and send it to the facility manager if you feel comfortable doing so. Please refer to the following resource in formatting your professional letter: Sample Letters
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