{"id":4758,"date":"2014-10-16T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendaryhomesinc.com\/blog\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2014-10-16T14:00:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T18:00:23","slug":"designing-accessible-modular-home-persons-hearing-impairment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendaryhomesinc.com\/updatedsite\/?p=4758","title":{"rendered":"Designing the Accessible Modular Home for Persons with Hearing Impairment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Modular Home in Michigano<\/p><\/div>\n

Modular home floor plans can be easily modified to meet universal design features, or be customized as much as needed to meet your specific accessibility requirements. \u00a0It can accommodate persons with hearing impairment most especially. In addition to the floor plan, a good accessible modular home design will need to include plans for entrances to the home as well as access to the landscape and outdoor entertainment.<\/p>\n

Accessible modular home<\/strong><\/a> design is not just about putting in a wheelchair ramp or a lift; it is about the comfortable enjoyment of home, family, and friends. It is a standard of living that provides a quality experience for everyone in the home.<\/p>\n

Universal Design for Modular Home<\/h3>\n

Universal Design overlaps and exceeds most all requirements.\u00a0The concept of universal design is to make all spaces accessible to the greatest number of people with the greatest possible range of abilities.\u00a0 This is the same principle behind aging-in-place. People are starting to look to the future and plan a home that will accommodate their needs as they age, or need to take in an aging parent, or care for an injured family member, or simply to have friends with disabilities over to watch the game.\u00a0 Universal Design<\/strong><\/a> is a smart design choice for many reasons, including resale value.<\/p>\n

Features of Modular Home for People with Hearing Impairment<\/h3>\n

The main goal of designing toward specific disabilities is to provide the highest level of ease of use, safety, comfort, and independence.\u00a0 If you are designing your modular home for yourself, or someone that will be living with you who has a hearing loss, it is important to plan for your immediate needs, and to plan for the future and any expected changes in abilities.\u00a0 Adding additional alert systems, and wiring for them, now will save you money and disruption later on if you have to retrofit theses features.\u00a0Some of the features you may want to add to the design of your modular home are alarms systems such as flashing lights, loud sounds, or bed shaking;outlets near phone jacks for TTYs and other devices; anda window or viewing panel by the entry door to identify visitors<\/p>\n

Universal Design for modular home minimizes background noises, for example: locate air conditioning equipment away from main living and\/or entertaining areas. It can also keep open spaces for visibility and ensure lighting is sufficient for visual communication.<\/p>\n

In case you still have question about modular homes, you may contact\u00a0Legendary Homes Inc<\/a>\u00a0in Jackson, Michigan. A representative will be happy to assist you. Meanwhile you can check our\u00a0modular home price sheets<\/a>\u00a0by signing up to our\u00a0blog<\/a><\/p>\n

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Modular home floor plans can be easily modified to meet universal design features, or be customized as much as needed to meet your specific accessibility requirements. \u00a0It can accommodate persons with hearing impairment most especially. In addition to the floor plan, a good accessible modular home design will need to include plans for entrances to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[389,427,621],"class_list":["post-4758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modular-homes","tag-modular-home","tag-modular-home-floor-plan","tag-universal-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendaryhomesinc.com\/updatedsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendaryhomesinc.com\/updatedsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendaryhomesinc.com\/updatedsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendaryhomesinc.com\/updatedsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendaryhomesinc.com\/updatedsite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legendaryhomesinc.com\/updatedsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendaryhomesinc.com\/updatedsite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendaryhomesinc.com\/updatedsite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendaryhomesinc.com\/updatedsite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}