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Last month, the authors examined bias and the need for mediators' essential mission to preserve the parties' self‐determination in the face of capacity issues. They conclude their four‐part series this month focusing on accommodations and support for parties that need it. The first three parts of the series can be found at "Biases, Accommodations, and the Process Details for Americans with Disabilities Act Mediation," 41 Alternatives 55 (April 2023) (available athttps://bit.ly/3A4LH4K); "Focusing on the Neutral's Role in Setting Up Americans with Disabilities Act Mediation," 41 Alternatives 39 (March 2023) (available athttps://bit.ly/3EEnWDj), and "ADA Mediation, Updated: Revisiting 30 Years of Disabilities Practice," 41 Alternatives 19 (February 2023) (available atbit.ly/3jTICQE) (which includes a box on Methodology and a Mediation Capacity Resource List sidebar). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Last month, the authors introduced the foundational basis of the capacity to mediate and how it affects the process. See "ADA Mediation, Updated: Revisiting 30 Years of Disabilities Practice," 41 Alternatives 19 (February 2023) (available atbit.ly/3jTICQE), which contains sidebars on methodology, the series lineup, and resources. After four mini‐chapters last month, this article views capacity issues through a case study, the application of the Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators, and some of the factors that limit a participant's ability to mediate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This four‐installment set of Alternatives articles adapts the second part of a web feature on the Americans with Disabilities Act Mediation Guidelines (available at https://bit.ly/ADAMediationGuidelinesWeb). The first part of the web examination was serialized starting May 2, 2021—a series of weekly refresher posts on the NYC‐DR listserv (see https://bit.ly/CUNYDRCListservSub) of the CUNY Dispute Resolution Center (available at https://bit.ly/CUNYDRC). It walks through the first section of the Guidelines on program and case administration, which includes program development, disability access to mediation, and mediator recruitment and selection. The posts in the first part of the ADA Mediation Guidelines refresher series are available at https://bit.ly/GuidelinesRefresherSeriesPartI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]