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This webcast will focus on ADA paratransit, emphasizing aspects of this topic that have not already been covered in depth during this series. Topics will include making fixed route systems fully accessible and the impact on paratransit, the commuter bus exception, the ADA paratransit service criteria, and capacity constraints including trip denials, paratransit reservation telephone hold times, and subscription service issues.

About the Presenter
Marilyn Golden is a Policy Analyst at the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), our nation's foremost national law and policy center on disability civil rights, with offices in Berkeley, California and Washington, D.C. She has been closely involved with the Americans with Disabilities Act throughout all the stages of its proposal and passage and now during its implementation. A highly lauded ADA trainer, she has directed and led numerous in-depth programs on the ADA which have given thousands of people comprehensive knowledge on how to make this law a reality. She is the principal author of the DREDF publication The ADA, an Implementation Guide (the "Bluebook"), DREDF's highly-respected ADA curriculum.

Since the ADA's passage, Ms. Golden has continued to play a key role in policy development on a federal level in the areas of transportation and architectural barriers. She was appointed by the President to the U.S. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (also known as the Access Board) in 1996 and served on the Access Board until 2005 as a very strong and effective advocate for the interests of people with disabilities. She has also played a key role as a national transportation advocate, and has led the struggle for many of the policy victories during and since the ADA to provide better public transportation for people with disabilities. She has also authored or coordinated many ADA-related transportation papers and projects, and led numerous in-depth training programs on ADA transportation.

In 2005, the National Council on Disability published a major paper on current major disability transportation policy issues co-authored by Ms. Golden, "The Current State of Transportation For People with Disabilities in the U.S".

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This webcast is supported through the DBTAC - Southwest ADA Center, a project of ILRU at Memorial Hermann|TIRR. The Southwest ADA Center is one of ten Disability and Business Technical Assistance Centers (DBTACs) funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to provide training, technical assistance and materials dissemination on the ADA and other disability-related laws. NIDRR is part of the U.S. Department of Education.

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