Author of Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act, Third Edition (published by the American Bar Association, 2010) and numerous articles on the rights of persons with disabilities, Mr. Goren has been involved with ADA/Rehabilitation Act compliance since 1990. Beyond his considerable experience with the law, he also understands what it means to have a disability as he has a congenital bilateral hearing loss of 65-90 db+ mitigated by hearing aids and lip reading. For other reasons, Mr. Goren also uses voice dictation technology.
Mr. Goren efforts to make the ADA/Rehabilitation Act more understandable is aided by his many years of teaching, which he has done full time since 1999 and for which he has won numerous teaching awards. Mr. Goren is currently a Professor, the Program Coordinator of the Paralegal Program, and ADA Instructional Coordinator (point person for ADA compliance), at South Suburban College in South Holland and Oak Forest, Illinois. As the ADA Instructional Coordinator, Mr. Goren is responsiblefor building preventive law systems across the institution so that all stakeholders can manage the ADA effectively. The opinions contained in this blog are his own and are not meant to represent the opinions of South Suburban College.
