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SFGTV November 21, 2014

Civilian life. Whats going on here . In this junction we can only speculate, the va states war veterans are challenged with ptsd, there are 3500 current afghanistan veterans are in San Francisco and they are challenged with this. Traumatic brain injury is another condition we are seeing. Depending on the injury a severe tbi can affect speech and attention and memory, concentration, impulsiveness. There is an estimate of four 4 percent having severe tbi that would translate to 175 city of san franciscans with tbi and can affect their ability to concentrate. But its very difficult to detect. Just last week terry gross on fresh air wrote on single injuries to todays veterans, they include sorrow, grief, regulate, ale nation. Alienation. This is something they had to do that goes against their value system, maybe they had to kill a child, maybe something they were horrified by. Terry called it moral injury, the signature wound of a vet ....

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SFGTV January 16, 2015

Okay. Great. Are we captioning . Great. Okay. Good. Welcome everybody to the first meeting of 2015 for the Mayors Disability Council. We will begin with our introduction. Thank you councilmember supanich happy new year and welcome to the council this friday in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheel chairs and other devices and wheelchair access is provided at the grove and access and provided via wheel chair lift. Assisted listening devices are available and our meeting is open captions and sign language interpreted. Our agendas are also available in large print and braille. Please ask staff for my additional assistance. To prevent electronic interference with the rooms sound system and to focus on the presentations, please silence all mobile phones and pdas. Your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome the publics partici ....

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SFGTV November 27, 2014

Hes been with us for 10 years. He says its as long as hes been anywhere. Long before john paul came to mod he had an increased mobility with access and he was one of the people who developed the standards for the accessibility guidelines and this goes back to 1990s. Over the years, california code process was advancing, he was also serving with the abandoning banding commission. And everyone who sat necessity in the committee knows its a slog, it takes passion and commitment. What we like about paul is most of all his passion. When he started working in the ada transition plan, we were in the early days, the infancy and we needed his guidance and focus to not only be able to develop the plan but advocate for the money and work with the managers and designers and the contractors and the Department Heads all of the different people that are involved in bringing these projects forward. It was really under his leadership that the ci ....

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SFGTV December 8, 2014

5546789 voice or reach us through tty at 4155546799. Let me repeat those numbers. You can reach us at voice at 4155546789 or reach us through tty at 4155546799. The final category of complaints received had to do with a city app and documents in a city website not being compatible with software use by people who are blind or have low vision. Under section 508 of the rehabilitation act and ada Program Access requirement, the city must make available the same information to people with sensory disability as the general public. In this case the city app, currently staff are working with the app vendor to see if changes can be made to add this functionality and they hope they will be able to incorporate this soon. In addition, individuals may access the information at the portal or call the staff call center from their mobile devices. All of these devices provide information. They promote on their website that offer voice over options ....

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SFGTV December 8, 2014

The military, i had trouble getting around for employment. Me going to swords, i was a client. They worked with me on my resume and made sure that i took advantage of all of my benefits that made me unique. I was offered a position and since then in five years 5 years i have had a lot of opportunities within the organization and its unanimously that my superiors would say that i have displayed above reproach and that my relationship within the community has also grown. I really want to thank you for sharing that part of your story and approaching this topic about employment as a way to highlight the veterans with disabilities are just parts of our community and that these special accommodations are no additional accommodations for anyone else particularly with unemployment. Thank you, any other questions of councilmembers . Councilmember senhaux . I want to thank you for being here. Your presentation was very impressive. I thank you for sharing parts of yourself and struggles that you ....

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