This is the representative accommodation training for "Suitable Representatives". If you want to become qualified as a Suitable Representative under WAC 10-24-010(19), you must contact the OAH ADA coordinator before you take this training.
These training materials discuss how to represent someone in hearings before OAH when a "suitable representative" has been appointed by OAH as an ADA accommodation.
Training materials:
- Overview of New Accommodation Rule WAC 10-24-010
- Suitable Representative Role and Responsibilities
- Communicating with a Client through an Interpreter
- Costs and Requests for Reimbursement
- Introduction to the ADA
- Strategies for Working with People who have Disabilities
- Communicating with and about People with Disabilities
- Guide to Etiquette and Behavior for Working with People with Disabilities
- Respecting Choice and Preferences of the Client
- Introduction to Training - Slides
- Scope of Duty - Slides
- How to Participate in Your Hearing – OAH Brochures - Slides
- Overview of Common Forms and Pleadings - Slides
- Appointment Process, the Case Record, and NOA - Slides
- Administrative Law - Slides
- Substantive Law - Slides
- Accommodating Parties with an Intellectual Disability
- Accommodating Parties with a Learning Disability
- Accommodating Parties with a Psychiatric Disability
- Accommodating Parties with a Head Injury
- Accommodating Parties with Low Vision or Blindness
- ADA Primer for State and Local Governments 2015
- WA State Access to Justice Technology Principles 2004
- General Resources