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Step 4: Choose the Accommodation
Communicating with Coworkers or Supervisors
People with learning disabilities may have difficulty communicating with coworkers or supervisors. For people with LD, poor communication may be the result of undeveloped social skills, lack of experience/exposure in the workforce, shyness, intimidation, behavior disorders, or low self-esteem. Accommodations may include:
- Providing detailed day-to-day guidance and feedback
- Offering positive reinforcement
- Providing clear expectations and the consequences of not meeting expectations
- Giving assignments verbally, in writing, or both, depending on what would be most beneficial to the employee
- Establishing long term and short term goals for employee
- Adjusting supervisory method by modifying the manner in which conversations take place, meetings are conducted, or discipline is addressed
- Provide sensitivity training to promote disability awareness
- If feasible, allow employee to work from home
- Help employee "learn the ropes" by provide a mentor
- Make employee attendance at social functions optional
- Allow employee to transfer to another workgroup, shift, or department
