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How May an Employer Determine a Learning Disabled Employee’s Needs?

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Question: How May an Employer Determine a Learning Disabled Employee’s Needs?
How May an Employer Determine a Learning Disabled Employee’s Needs?
Answer: Determining appropriate accommodations for a learning disabled employee will require consideration of:
  • The individual employee’s specific limitations and strengths;
  • The impact of those limitations on the job;
  • Specific tasks that are impacted by the employee’s learning disability;
  • The individual employee’s input and recommendations; and
  • Ways the employee’s difficulty could be reduced.
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