{"id":2238,"date":"2021-07-21T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2021-07-21T11:00:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T18:00:28","slug":"acb-para-olympic-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/21\/acb-para-olympic-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"ACB Para-Olympic statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subject: ACB Statement July 21, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ACB logo in white<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Bridges, ACB\u2019s Executive Director shared that \u201cACB and our members are deeply concerned regarding the media reports of the treatment of Paralympian Rebecca Meyers by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC).&nbsp;<br>ACB is alarmed that the USOPC, could be in violation of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act by not providing primary consideration to the accommodation request of a person with a disability.<br>It is unacceptable to refer to the provision of an individual\u2019s reasonable accommodation, which is necessary for their full inclusion and success, as the athlete\u2019s choice\u201d. To read the full statement, visit: https:\/\/acb.org\/acb-statement-7-21-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American Council of the Blind | www.acb.org<br>Facebook\u200c Twitter\u200c LinkedIn\u200c YouTube\u200c<br>American Council of The Blind | 1703 North Beauregard Street, Suite 420, Alexandria, VA 22311<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subject: ACB Statement July 21, 2021 ACB logo in white Eric Bridges, ACB\u2019s Executive Director shared that \u201cACB and our members are deeply concerned regarding the media reports of the treatment of Paralympian Rebecca Meyers by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC).&nbsp;ACB is alarmed that the USOPC, could be in violation of Title III [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}