disclosure and accommodation we'll start
with some definition disclosure this
simply means telling others about a
disability or its impact in employment
context it might mean discussing a
disability or it's related barriers on
the job disclosure when and to whom a
worker might disclose to a variety of
parties like supervisors human resources
personnel union reps co-workers and
sometimes clients and customers a worker
might also choose to never disclose this
information at work the decision to
disclose belongs to the person who lives
with the disability accommodations these
are the strategies aids and alterations
and work conditions used in employment
education social service and commercial
settings this ensures that a person can
overcome a disability related barrier in
order to participate fully and benefit
fully consider this example changing a
break time to allow a worker to take
medication or ordering special software
to make it easier to read documents on a
computer workers with disabilities are
legally entitled to necessary
accommodations and employers are legally
required to provide them accommodation
requests often involve disclosing the
impact of a disability