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ADA letter finally acknowledged by employer at almost a year in, meeting Tuesday what do I do??

ADA letter finally acknowledged by employer at almost a year in, meeting Tuesday what do I do?? \[This is a throwaway account that includes a TL;DR toward the end but I need to get this out. If anyone...

Do try! And if you feel afterwards your examiners failed to take your blocks into account, send an appeal. You deserve to be treated fairly....

Are the examiners aware of your stutter? It's their job to accurately assess your work/answers. If they fail to take your stutter into account then they suck at their job. Send a few emails to the exa...

Get documentation that you weren’t selected based on your lack of communication skills and file a complaint with the ada. Won’t get the job but they’ll get big fines...

Oh yeah I got a 2/5 star review that's keeping me in a horrible department. She waited 8mo to give me my 6mo review putting me at great disadvantage. This stuck up lady brings up a problem and I wan...

My husband was in a nursing program and they forced him out. They said he didn’t seem like he could pass the communication part. I should have sought legal advice because this seems discriminatory....

Under the ADA, the Americans with Disabilities Act, it's illegal for them not to consider you for a job because you have a stutter. Now....proving that would be difficult, unpleasant, and probably pr...

How do you get through job interviews? What accommodations do you use?

How do you get through job interviews? What accommodations do you use? In interviews, you are supposed to form the best impression of your skills/abilities so that they know you're competent enough. ...

Canada offers disability tax credits but the criteria is very vague with respect to people who stutter . You also need a speech language pathologist to do an assessment for your application. I’m a bla...

Stuttering is not considered a disability in the UK, although I think it should but it isn't. You can confirm this on the british stammering association (BSA) website...

In Ivory coast ( west Africa ) benefits for disabled people are very scarce and if they exist, they're only for physically disabled persons although they are nowhere near what you could find in first ...

From my understanding, having a disability, whatever it may be, isn’t all that’s required for the DTC. The disability has to significantly impact one’s activities of daily living, either by ensuring t...

In Australia, you can get speech therapy if you have private health insurance and can afford it, but that doesn't often work, and it's not cheap. You can try other things like antidepressants or anti...

In Korea, there's something like inclusivity seminar for new employees where they learn how to interact with disabled individuals. Last time I checked, these seminars did not include stutter. So I hav...

In Romania we've got nothing. We have speech pathologists but most of the specialize in infantile stuttering and very few actually work with adults. There is no association of people that stutter neit...

In the US there's the ADA (Americans w Disabilites Act) that protects people with disabilities and defines them and since speech and communication is a major part of life it's considered a disability ...

As far as I know, you can declare it as a disability when applying for jobs and suchlike, but you have to jump through a load of flaming hoops to get disability benefits for anything in the UK. You'd ...

Hello everyone! How does your country treat people with stuttering? Are there any benefits? Help with employment? Is there any support?

Hello everyone! How does your country treat people with stuttering? Are there any benefits? Help with employment? Is there any support? I heard somewhere that stuttering is considered a disability in ...

Trying to avoid painting this as an "Oppression Olympics," who-has-it-worse competition, the people in the film are great communicators and very coherent speakers. And that's not to say they haven't d...

Thanks for sharing, Maya! A really well-made look into those various community-building efforts. The anxiety I feel with my stutter has led me to almost entirely avoid so much as talking about my st...