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The Americans with Disabilities Act Checklist for Readily Achievable Barrier Removal: Checklist for Existing Facilities version 2.1
 

Programs are required to ensure accessibility to their children, staff, and parents with disabilities. This checklist assists disabilities coordinators and other managers in assessing their environment for barriers to accessibility in order to plan for their programs' improvement.

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This checklist will help you identify accessibility problems and solutions in existing facilities in order to meet your obligations under the ADA. The goal of the survey process is to plan how to make an existing facility more usable for people with disabilities. The Department of Justice (DOJ) recommends the development of an Implementation Plan, specifying what improvements you will make to remove barriers and when each solution will be carried out: "... Such a plan...could serve as evidence of a good faith effort to comply..." More>> [PDF, 292KB]

 



The Americans with Disabilities Act Checklist for Readily Achievable Barrier Removal: Checklist for Existing Facilities version 2.1. Adaptive Environments Center, Inc. and Barrier Free Environments, Inc. ED/OSERS/NIDRR. 1995. English. [PDF, 292KB].


Last Reviewed: November 2009

Last Updated: April 19, 2012