카지노 Celebrates 30 Years of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Yesterday, July 26, marked the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, arguably one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in the past three decades. When the ADA was signed into law in 1990, it outlawed discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, housing, and many other aspects of public life. 카지노 is proud to celebrate the passage of this landmark law, and to affirm our commitment to helping those with disabilities as they pursue a legal education and a career in law.
The ADA was championed by U.S. Representative Tony Coelho, whose own experience made him a strong advocate for disability rights, as he explained on a recent episode of the Southeast ADA Center해외 카지노 추천s 해외 카지노 추천ADA Live!해외 카지노 추천 podcast. As a teenager, Coelho suffered a head injury in a car accident and began having seizures, but he was not diagnosed with epilepsy until he began pursuing his goal of becoming a Catholic priest. The diagnosis disqualified him because the church, in Coelho해외 카지노 추천s words, believed having epilepsy was akin to being 해외 카지노 추천possessed by the devil.해외 카지노 추천 He was despondent but eventually came to realize that 해외 카지노 추천you해외 카지노 추천ve got to end up loving yourself and believing in yourself to do what you want to do; if you don해외 카지노 추천t do that, others won해외 카지노 추천t either.해외 카지노 추천 It gave him the drive to work toward his own success and to fight for the rights of those with disabilities.
The ADA, Coelho notes, came about because while other federal legislation had addressed certain aspects of this discrimination, those with disabilities were not in a protected class and lacked the right to go to court and take on those who were discriminating against them. 해외 카지노 추천Once the bill was enacted, we had the right to go to court just like any other group,해외 카지노 추천 he says. Now, the ADA has become a way of life, and those who were born with or acquired a disability after 1990 don해외 카지노 추천t know any other way. 해외 카지노 추천It해외 카지노 추천s great that young people don해외 카지노 추천t know what happened,해외 카지노 추천 Coelho says. 해외 카지노 추천They just know they have rights.해외 카지노 추천
At 카지노, we해외 카지노 추천re committed to upholding the spirit of the ADA by ensuring that anyone with a disability is able to pursue their dream of a legal education. That starts with our flagship test, the LSAT, which is designed to level the playing field and give every candidate an equal opportunity to be admitted to law school. We have a long history of accommodating test takers with disabilities, and with the move to our online LSAT-Flex exam during the COVID-19 pandemic, we해외 카지노 추천re being proactive about working with universities and test centers to ensure that test takers have access to the devices and quiet spaces they need.
Additionally, Leanne Shank, 카지노해외 카지노 추천s senior vice president for legal and corporate affairs, general counsel, and corporate secretary, has been active in working with disability associations and communities to enhance the candidate pipeline and reduce barriers to legal education and the legal profession. Shank해외 카지노 추천s quest to learn more about and reduce burdens for candidates with disabilities derives, in part, from seeing the challenges disabled family members must overcome as well as 카지노 President and CEO Kellye Testy and the organization해외 카지노 추천s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. In addition, Shank해외 카지노 추천s sense of social justice and her involvement in workshops, webinars, and symposia that advocate for individuals with disabilities inspire her to continually explore, together with her 카지노 colleagues, ways to provide effective accommodations for test takers with disabilities. 카지노 is planning even more initiatives in collaboration with various disability organizations and hopes to expand its efforts to help law schools and members of the legal profession welcome and support individuals with disabilities.
해외 카지노 추천The most important thing to me,해외 카지노 추천 says Tony Coelho, 해외 카지노 추천is that young people are covered by the ADA from the day they해외 카지노 추천re born until the day they die.해외 카지노 추천 That important legacy means the ADA will continue to impact lives for many decades to come, and 카지노 aims to do the same as an ally of those with disabilities who seek to add their diverse voices to the legal profession.