Portal:Office for Civil Rights

“ A covered entity must take appropriate steps to ensure that communications with individuals with disabilities are as effective as communications with others and provide appropriate auxiliary aids and services where necessary to afford a qualified individual with a disability an equal opportunity to participate in the service, program or activity. ”

“ Some individuals with disabilities may be unable, because of the disability, to keep a mask on for a long period of time in a vaccination facility. In that situation, a reasonable modification may be to allow the individual to fill out the paperwork for check-in at home or outside the facility, limit the time that the individual is inside to receive the vaccine, or offer curbside or in-home vaccinations. Similarly, if some individuals with disabilities have difficulty, because of a disability, standing in line for long periods of time, the program can provide seating for those individuals. ”

“ If a county vaccine program selects one or more sites for distribution of a vaccine, and individuals with mobility disabilities are unable to travel to any of the vaccination sites for reasons related to their disabilities, the program will have to find an alternative way to provide individuals with disabilities access to the vaccine program, which could include the provision of transportation to the site or, vaccine administration at home or at a site to which individuals with disabilities are able to travel. ”

“ The program can also provide indoor seating to those unable to stay outside in extreme temperature because of a disability, without changing the individual’s place in the line. Effective Communication. ”