Epilepsy Legal Defense Fund

Every day, people with epilepsy are denied employment or fired from their jobs simply because their employers are afraid and uninformed. Learn more.

Visit the Jeanne A. Carpenter Epilepsy Legal Defense Fund and help people with epilepsy fight discrimination.

Restoring the Promise of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Epilepsy in Focus: Restoring the Promise of the Americans with Disabilities Act (Part I)

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is failing to shield a large number of the people it was designed to protect.

As a result, people with epilepsy are losing jobs, or failing to get work they are capable of doing simply because of their medical condition.

In Epilepsy in Focus: Restoring the ADA, our experts examine the law's impact on the rights of Americans with disabilities to work and support their families.

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Epilepsy in Focus: Restoring the Promise of the Americans with Disabilities Act (Part II)

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Learn More

Visit our special section on the Americans with Disabilities Act. Find out why the ADA is important to you.







Special Guests:


Tony Coelho
Immediate Past Chair
Epilepsy Foundation
Original Cosponsor of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act


Chai Feldblum
Professor of Law
Director of Federal Legislation Clinic
Georgetown University Law Center


Sandy Finucane
vice President, Legal and Government Affairs
Epilepsy Foundation


Cheryl Sensenbrenner
Chairperson
American Association of People with Disabilities


Past Episodes:

Epilepsy in Focus: Fatherhood

Greg Grunberg, NBC's Heroes
Randy Siegel, Publisher of Parade Magazine