Last night my Seeing Eye dog and I took an Uber ride to a special “accessible” performance of the play Great Expectations. From the Victory Gardens web site: Wednesday, December 10 at 8:00 PM Access Services include: Audio Description, Closed Captioning, Wheelchair accessibility, free UBER Transportation Mike wasn’t interested in going, and I’ve been curious […]

Hi folks–Mike (Beth’s spousal unit) here with a guest post. Beth wrote recently about people abusing the ADA by falsely or at least loosely claiming their pet was a service dog. Well, the less I say about that phenomenon, the better. On the extreme flip side—at least from what I can glean, is this example […]

If you have a disability and want to bring your helper parrot, monkey or snake with you in public, I’m afraid you’re out of luck. starting today, March 15, 2011, only service dogs and trained miniature horses are protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act. These ADA revisions were drawn up after some disability advocates […]

If you have a disability and want to bring your helper parrot, monkey or snake with you in public, I’m afraid you’re out of luck. That’s the first line of a guest post I wrote for The Bark Magazine’s blog about revisions made to the Department of Justice’s ADA regulations. The DOJ used to define […]

Yesterday’s Day to Day programon National Public Radio (NPR) aired a story called Helper Parrots, Guide Horses Face Legal Challenges. Day to Day, January 2, 2009 • Chances are you’ve seen a blind person accompanied by a guide dog.  But what about a guide horse, a service parrot or a monkey trained to help an […]