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Just Hop Up, Look Here, Read This, Listen Up, Don’t Breathe & Stay Still!
Access to Medical Equipment – Where are We?

About the Presenter

June Isaacson Kailes has operated a full time consulting practice since 1989. She consults, writes and trains on: ADA implementation, advocacy training and skills building; health, wellness and aging with disability; developing and analyzing disability-related public policy; planning barrier free meetings, disability diversity training, reaching the disability market; customer service and product design, accessible telecommunication, disaster preparedness for people with disabilities and incorporating universal design and usability principles into existing and new environments. She has received many awards and written over 80 publications including: A Guide to Planning Accessible Meetings, Be a Savvy Health Care Consumer - Your Life May Depend on It! and Health, Wellness, and Aging with Disability.

June is also well known for her national and international work in disaster preparedness for people with disabilities. Her publications Living and Lasting on Shaky Ground: An Earthquake Preparedness Guide for People with Disabilities, is distributed by California Office of Emergency Safety and Creating a Disaster - Resistant Infrastructure for People at Risk Including People with Disabilities is used and published in several countries.

She held many offices on the boards of the National Council of Independent Living and the California Foundation of Independent Living Centers and served as the Executive Director of the Westside Center for Independent Living in Los Angeles. June has a presidential appointment to the United States Access Board and has served as both its Vice Chair and Chair. To learn more about June, visit www.jik.com.

Contact Information

June Isaacson Kailes
Disability Policy Consultant
Phone 310.821.7080
Fax 310.827.0269
jik@pacbell.net
www.jik.com