Accessible Vacations - An Insider''s Guide to 12 Us Cities

Written for anyone with disabilities or other physical challenges that make travel more difficult, this book offers information on access, learning, and visiting in 12 of the most visited cities in the US. It reviews the accessible technologies and a 5-step plan for supporting people with access needs.

List of contents

1 Introduction
My First Experience of Traveling through the US
Accessibility and the Law
Accessible Vacations's Five-Step Plan
What Follows in Accessible Vacations
Section I: Access Needs
Developing Access or Planning Your Own Access
2 Hearing Loss
Living with Hearing Loss
A Family Experience of Hearing Loss
My Hearing Loss
Hearing Loss in Cultural Places
3 Sight Loss
Types of Sight Loss
Experiences of People with Sight Loss
Access Needs and Sight Loss
The Gravity, The Levity-Fayen D'Evie and Georgina Kleege
4 Learning Difficulties and Memory Loss
The Nature of Learning, Memory, and Aging
What Higher-on-the-Spectrum Learning Difficulties Are
Higher-on-the-Spectrum Learning Difficulties and Cultural Places
Memory, and What Higher-on-the-Spectrum Memory Loss Is
Higher-on-the-Spectrum Memory Loss and Cultural Places
5 Mobile Technologies and Cultural Places
Using Tablets and Cell Phones in Cultural Places
Apps and Functions for Accessing Writing and Typing
Recording Voices and Other Sounds Using Apps and Functions
Taking Photographs and Recording Videos Using Apps and Functions
Using Touch and Gestures Settings
Summary
Section II: Twelve Cities
The Five-Step Plan
How the Cities and Cultural Places Were Chosen
6 Atlanta, Georgia
Insider Tip
Access for Visitors with Sight Loss
Access for Visitors with Hearing Loss
Access for Visitors with Learning Disabilities, Memory Loss, and Autism Higher on the Spectrum
Access for Visitors with Mobility Issues
Access for Supporters
7 Boston, Massachusetts
Insider Tip
Access for Visitors with Sight Loss
Access for Visitors with Hearing Loss
Access for Visitors with Learning Disabilities, Memory Loss, and Autism Higher on the Spectrum
Access for Visitors with Mobility Issues
Access for Supporters
8 Chicago, Illinois
Insider Tip
Access for Visitors with Sight Loss
Access for Visitors with Hearing Loss
Access for Visitors with Learning Disabilities, Memory Loss, and Autism Higher on the Spectrum
Access for Visitors with Mobility Issues
Access for Supporters
9 Denver, Colorado
Insider Tip
Access for Visitors with Sight Loss
Access for Visitors with Hearing Loss
Access for Visitors with Learning Disabilities, Memory Loss, and Autism Higher on the Spectrum
Access for Visitors with Mobility Issues
Access for Supporters
10 Houston, Texas
Insider Tip
Access for Visitors with Sight Loss
Access for Visitors with Hearing Loss
Access for Visitors with Learning Disabilities, Memory Loss, and Autism Higher on the Spectrum
Access for Visitors with Mobility Issues
Access for Supporters
11 Los Angeles, California
Insider Tip
Access for Visitors with Sight Loss
Access for Visitors with Hearing Loss
Access for Visitors with Learning Disabilities, Memory Loss, and Autism Higher on the Spectrum
Access for Visitors with Mobility Issues
Access for Supporters
12 Miami, Florida
Insider Tip
Access for Visitors with Sight Loss
Access for Visitors with Hearing Loss
Access for Visitors with Learning Disabilities, Memory Loss, and Autism Higher on the Spectrum
Access for Visitors with Mobility Issues
Access for Supporters
13 New York City, New York
Insider Tip
Access for Visitors with Sight Loss
Access for Visitors with Hearing Loss
Access for Visitors with Learning Disabilities, Memory Loss, and Autism Higher on the Spectrum
Access for Visitors with Mobility Issues
Access for Supporters
14 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Insider Tip
Access for Visitors with Sight Loss
Access for Visitors with Hearing Loss
Access for Visitors with Learning Disabilities, Memory Loss, and Autism Higher on the Spectrum
Access for Visitors with Mobility Issues
Access for Supporters
15 San Francisco, California
Insider Tip
Access for Visitors with Sight Loss
Access for Visitors with Hearing Loss
Access for Visitors with Learning Disabilities, Memory Loss, and Autism Higher on the Spectrum
Access for Visitors with Mobility Issues
Access for Supporters
16 Seattle, Washington
Insider Tip
Access for Visitors with Sight Loss
Access for Visitors with Hearing Loss
Access for Visitors with Learning Disabilities, Memory Loss, and Autism Higher on the Spectrum
Access for Visitors with Mobility Issues
Access for Supporters
17 Washington, DC
Insider Tip
Access for Visitors with Sight Loss
Access for Visitors with Hearing Loss
Access for Visitors with Learning Disabilities, Memory Loss, and Autism Higher on the Spectrum
Access for Visitors with Mobility Issues
Access for Supporters
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Simon Hayhoeis the author of eight books on art education and museum access for people with disabilities and is also an educational advisor for the World Health Organization. His current work focuses on inclusive mobile technologies, and he has just completed a European project investigating the use of mobile technologies by disabled people in museums and monuments. Hayhoe has also won numerous awards in his field, including a Fulbright Award and a Fellowship of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and he has presented his work at major museums and colleges in the US, Russia, UK, Singapore, Belgium and Italy. Beyond work and writing, Hayhoe lives with his wife and two children, close to where he was born and raised.

Product details

• Authors: Simon J. Hayhoe
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781538128695
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-2869-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Travel > Travel guides; USA, Walking, hiking, trekking, Travel & holiday guides, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Hikes & Walks, TRAVEL / United States / General, Coping with disability, United States of America, USA, Travel and holiday guides, Coping with / advice about physical impairments / disability, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Disabilities