Doug Walter, AIA and I are presenting at Construct12 Convention in Phoenix.   As part of our talk we are providing some of our favorite ADA and accessibilty books we have read and recommend.  There are also great websites we have found that we also want to make available:

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

US ACCESS BOARD

EEOC

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

HUD (Housing & Urban Development)

GSA (General Services Administration)

Veterans Administration

BOOKS

Access by Design, by G.A. & Hannah Covington, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1997.

Accessibility Pocket Book:2009 IBC/ICC ANSI A117.1-2003, by the International Code Council, Inc.

Americans with Disabilities Act and Architectural Barriers Act Accessibility Guidelines, July 23, 2004, by the United States Access Board

The ADA Companion Guide : Understanding the 2004 Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Design Guidelines, by Marcela A. Rhoads, 2010

The Disability Studies Reader, by Lennard J. Davis, 2010

Universal Design By Sternfeld and Moisel

Implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act  Edited by Jane West

Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act by Bill D. Goren

SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS FOR SPECIFIC CONDITIONS

Alzheimer’s Association  www.alz.org

Arthritis Foundation  www.arthritis.org

American Federation of the Blind  www.afb.org

Home Free Home www.homefreehome.org

National Federation for the Blind  www.nfb.org

American Lung Association www.lung.org

Brain Injury Association of America www.bia.org

National Down  Syndrome Society www.ndss.org

Easter Seals www.easterseals.com

Epilepsy Foundation www.epilepsyfoundation.org

March of Dimes  www.marchofdimes.com

Muscular Dystrophy Association www.mda.org

National Association of the Deaf   www.nad.org

National Multiple Sclerosis Society www.nationalmssociety.org

WEBSITES

The US Access Board 

Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation www.license.state.tx.us

Disability.gov

The National Organization on Disability

The National Council on Disability

National Council on Independent Living (NCIL)

AHEAD: the Association of Higher Education and Disability, www.ahead.org

www.universaldesign.com

OTHER BIBLIOGRAPHIES

“Criplit”Disability Bibliographies, by AHEAD, Association on Higher Education and Disability, http://www.ahead.org/resources/bibliographies

NLS Accessibility:A Selective Bibliography, http://www.loc.gov/nls/reference/bibliographies/accessibility.html