ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES
Hotel. The Sheraton Atlanta Hotel has 17 accessible sleeping rooms. After you make your reservation for an accessible room, please alert Michele. She will follow-up with the hotel to ensure that your request is honored.
Due to lack of use at previous meetings, SSSP will not offer a comfort zone. Please see Michele if you feel that SSSP should reconsider this decision in the future.
An accessible gender-neutral (unisex/family) public restroom is located on the third floor of the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel.
Sessions. SSSP strives to make its Annual Meeting accessible to ensure full participation by persons with disabilities. Each presentation or session should be designed and conducted with the full participation of all in mind. Therefore, the SSSP requests that all presenters follow the Guidelines for Program Participants and take the steps necessary to make all programming accessible to their respective audiences.
Airports. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), website: www.atlanta-airport.com. Airline representatives at Hartsfield-Jackson are available to provide wheelchair assistance. To reserve a wheelchair, please contact the airline directly prior to the scheduled flight. Check with the individual airlines regarding their boarding policies for persons with special needs. All restroom facilities are fully equipped for wheelchair access. Four sets of “Men/Women” restrooms are located on each concourse. There are five unisex restrooms for those traveling with an attendant in the airport.
Airport telephone booths are designed to accommodate passengers with special needs and are located throughout the concourses. Terminals North and South offer a special needs telephone in the main corridor near the main security-screening checkpoint. Additional telephones are located in the terminal ticketing areas with two pedestal phones in the Terminal Baggage Area.
To accommodate passengers’ pets and guide dogs, Hartsfield-Jackson has a Poochie Park located on the lower level of Terminal North outside door LN2 to the right of the building. There are also two other areas where pets may relieve themselves.
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA).
All of the bus routes are equipped with wheelchair lifts or kneeling capabilities. Published materials that MARTA makes routinely available to the public, including but not limited to, bus and rail schedules, system maps and customer guides, are available in alternative formats, upon request, by calling MARTA’s Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity at 404-848-4037. You may also call the Telephone Device for the Deaf at 404-848-5665.
MARTA provides ADA Complementary Paratransit Service for eligible persons with disabilities who are unable to board, ride or disembark from an accessible vehicle in MARTA’s regular bus or rail services. Service is provided with special lift-equipped vans on a curb-to-curb, shared ride basis. Visitors that have been certified by another transit system in another city are authorized to use MARTA Mobility and are subject to MARTA’s operating requirements. Visitors are asked to call MARTA at 404-848-5399 to obtain temporary eligibility prior to scheduling a reservation. For MARTA Mobility specific Customer Service inquiries, please call 404-848-5389 or 711 (Georgia Relay for Hearing Impaired). MARTA’s Customer Service Center can be reached at 404-848-5000 or TTY -404-848-5665.