Colleen Durkin-Blackburn and Kate Wiltz were joined by Ray Bloomer of the National Park Service in Tennessee’s Fall Creek Falls State Park in early April. Their mission: spreading awareness about the disability community and the ways in which parks and recreation sites can remove barriers to accessibility. The three-day training included both classroom and field-based activities in which the thirty plus participants applied accessibility and universal design standards to both indoor and outdoor settings.
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| Students at the training engaged in a review of products marketed as “ADA compliant.” | Participants adding their “important dates” to the history of accessibility legislation timeline. | Students worked in teams to evaluate barriers and solutions to accessibility of outdoor developed areas. |
Students worked in teams to evaluate barriers and solutions to accessibility of outdoor developed areas.
Evaluations from the training were positive and continued Eppley’s National Center on Accessibility (NCA) program record of accomplishment of delivering cost efficient and effective accessibility training nationwide.