Americans+with+Disabilities+Act

= Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 = **"President George Bush** ** signs the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 26, 1990. The ADA is the most comprehensive U.S. law addressing the rights of disabled persons "**

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The act was passed by President George Bush in 1990. It addressed Americans facing discrimination against their mental and physical disabilities; some 43,000,000 Americans have one or more physical or mental disabilities, and this number is increasing as the population as a whole is growing older; Examples of such disabilities include blindness, deafness, deformity, muscular and nervous disorders, paralysis, and loss of limbs. =====

Accommodations;

 * ramps to buildings,
 * Curbs with ramps,
 * Accessible transportation for people in wheelchairs
 * Qualified interpreters for deaf or blind people
 * No job discrimination
 * Over all to help disabled people try to live normal healthy lives

Effects in children's lives
In the 1980s some schools would prohibit children with disabilities admittance to there public schools by the 1990s all public school were forced to allow equal rights for the disabled children instead of having them pay a fortune for private schooling.

In 1990, the efforts of advocates for disability rights culminated in the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the first comprehensive civil rights law for people with disabilities. Endorsed by some 180 national disability rights organizations, the law prohibits discrimination against disabled individuals by employers, public services (including mass transportation), public accommodations, and telecommunications systems. In a speech during the signing, President George Bush declared, "Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down."

Meanwhile, many adults with disabilities, who were dependent on such federal aid as Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), desired to work but faced the loss of those benefits if they did find a job, even a part-time one. The Employment Opportunities for Disabled Americans Act of 1986 finally allowed recipients of SSI or SSDI to continue to collect benefits while working. The more a recipient earned, the less federal money he or she would collect, and his or her federal health insurance would remain intact.

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