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Career > Accommodations
The Interactive Process: What Happens After You Request a Workplace Accommodation
...is required to engage in what's called the "interactive process": a good-faith dialogue between you and your employer to identify an effective accommodation....your request or delays without explanation, that can be evidence of bad faith in an EEOC complaint. Your Employer Can Request Medical Documentation. Your...
Legal > Discrimination
Your Employer Denied Your Accommodation Request: Know Your Rights and Next Steps
...Process Is a Legal Requirement, Not a Courtesy. When you request a reasonable accommodation, federal law obligates your employer to engage in a good-faith dialogue with you. This is called the interactive process, and it's not optional for the employer. The process requires both parties to exchange information...
Therapies > Other
God Therapy for Autism
A mom finds hope in her faith after her sons are diagnosed with autism, seeing them as 'gifts from God' and witnessing their achievements.
Parenting > Diagnosis
After the Diagnosis: Who to Tell and What to Say
...diagnosis, the age of your child and her siblings, the dynamics of your immediate and extended family, and the make up of your friend, co-worker, and faith community networks. But the principles below can guide your decisions about who to tell and what to say after receiving your child's special needs diagnosis....
Career > Accommodations
Mental Health Accommodations: What Employers Must Provide for Depression and Anxiety
...That determination comes from your medical provider, and the employer's job is to participate in what the law calls the interactive process: a good-faith conversation about what accommodations would work without creating undue hardship. Here's what you can request, how to frame it, and what your employer...
Lifestyle > Self-Care
Sharing Caregiving Responsibilities: Division of Labor for Couples
...disabilities carry a disproportionate share of caregiving responsibilities, reporting significantly higher time commitments and stress levels than fathers in the same households. The impact on relationship satisfaction is measurable. Couples who report more equitable task-sharing also report higher marital...
News > Sports
Noah Elliott Raced Beijing with a Femur Bone Through His Skin. He's Calling Milan His Redemption Games.
...learning to skateboard at 10 and tracking toward a professional career by 15. In 2013, two things happened in close succession: he became a teenage father to his daughter, Skylar, and received a diagnosis of osteosarcoma, a rare and aggressive bone cancer. His left leg was amputated above the knee. Chemotherapy...
Legal > Housing
Ensuring Inclusion: Understanding Special Needs Housing Laws
Ensuring #Inclusion: Understanding Special Needs Housing Laws #FairHousingAct #ADA #InclusionForAll #BreakingBarriers
News > Sports
Steven Dodd of the Great Britain Team Continues to Win, Win, Win!
...Dodd, younger sisters Jackie and Paris all went out of their way to make us feel as welcome as if we were at their home in Plymouth, England. Steven's father, Graham, and brother, sadly were not able to make the trip but he was well represented by his coach in Great Britain, Andrew Beynon. When...
News > Sports
Tim Shriver Speaks With Moo Sung Kim, South Korea's Chairman of the Supreme Council at Special Olympics
...went wild and the loudest cheers came from his mom and aunt, who were able to make the trip out to Los Angeles to support him. Adam took after his father, Robert Maresh, a national wrestler nicknamed "Swampy." When Adam was in high school wrestling and power lifting came naturally. He was diagnosed with...
Lifestyle > Recreation
Dolphin Tale 2 Combo Pack
...Harry Connick, Jr. (Dr. Clay Haskett who runs the facility), Nathan Gamble (Sawyer Nelson), Ashley Judd (Sawyer's mother), Kris Kristofferson (Clay's father), Cozi Zuehisdorff (Clay's daughter Hazel), Austin Stowell (Kyle), Morgan Freeman (Dr. Cameron McCarthy who invented Winter's prosthesis), and Bethany...
Health > Nutrition
Going Gluten, Casein and Chemical Free
...not even in the SDC (Special Day Class). They said that the only place for him was at another school for moderate to severely autistic children. His father and I were shocked, but we were willing to go visit this classroom. In the room were several non-verbal, heavily stimming children. They were being...