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The ADA requires these types of modifications or adjustments to a job application process or work environment so a person with a disability can perform essential duties.
What are: Reasonable Accommodations
This means giving students the support they need, such as extra time on tests or note-taking assistance, so they have equal access to learning.
What is: an accommodation
This is a change or adjustment that helps an employee with a disability perform their job.
What is: a reasonable accommodation
Changes or supports that help a person with a disability participate equally in school or at work.
What are: accommodations
Accommodations are designed to provide equal access, not this.
What is: an unfair advantage.
During a job interview, an employer can legally ask this specific question regarding your disability status.
What is: no question
A student who uses speech-to-text software is still expected to do this, even with the accommodation.
What is: complete their own work
A person that has a disability and was given a reasonable accommodation in the workplace is still expected to follow these.
What is: workplace rules/policies.
Changes or supports that help a person with a disability participate equally in school or at work.
What is Self-Advocacy
A student who has difficulty hearing may receive this accommodation during class discussions.
What is: a sign language interpreter
This law as signed into effect by President George H. W. Bush in 1990 and protects individuals with mental health conditions, chronic illnesses, and learning disabilities.
What is: The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
This important skill means speaking up for your needs, asking questions, and requesting accommodations when needed.
What is: Self Advocacy
If a person has a workplace accommodation need, they should communicate it to this person.
Who is: Their supervisor or Human Resources
Treating everyone fairly and with dignity, regardless of disability.
What is: Respect
An accommodation should NOT do this to learning or job expectations.
When interviewing for a job, this person is responsible for deciding if or what to disclose about your disability.
Who is: the job candidate (yourself)
In order to have an accommodation in a high school setting, you need to have this in place first.
What is: an IEP or 504 plan
What is having a disability.
The jobs or tasks you are expected to complete.
What are: responsibilities
If an accommodation is not working, the employee or student should do this.
What is: speak to their supervisor or teacher to review the accommodation or request a new reasonable accommodation.
What is: without discrimination
This person is responsible for making sure your IEP is retrieved from high school and taken to the disability support center in a post secondary school setting (college, university, etc).
Who is: yourself
This phrase refers to the main duties of a job that an employee must be able to perform, with or without accommodations.
What is: essential job functions (or duties).
The legal or moral freedoms and protections every person has.
If a student has trouble reading and understanding questions on a test so they have trouble finishing quickly, this type of accommodation may be used.
What is: extra time for testing.