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The Implication of the Americans with Disabilities Act on the Vocational Rehabilitation Process
Job Placement and Employer Disability Management

This training presented by Richard Pimentel of Milt Wright and Associates explores the relationship of the Americans with Disabilities Act on vocational rehabilitation, job placement, and employer disability management consultation.

At the end of the training participants will be able to:

  • Identify the aspects of vocational rehabilitation that are affected by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
  • Be aware of the changes and trends of recent decisions and clarifications about the Americans with Disabilities Act and their implications for working with clients and employers.
  • Better prepare employers to interview, evaluate, hire and supervise persons with disabilities.
  • Better prepare clients with disabilities to interview and to communicate their needs for reasonable accommodations both during the interviews and on the job.
  • Understand the role of the rehabilitation counselor in disclosing information about a clients disability or and need for accommodation to a prospective employer.
  • Work with and advise employers on interviewing, hiring and employment aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
  • When not to advise employers about Americans with Disabilities Act and defer to legal counsel.
  • Understand how other laws impact on persons with disabilities, such as FMLA and HIPPA.
  • Understand the role that the Americans with Disabilities Act plays in retention of existing employees with disabilities and existing employees who acquire disabilities on and off the job.
The training consists of a combination of lecture, video, interactive exercises, and role plays.

Agenda Introduction:
A history of the Americans with Disabilities Act and an overview of its components. How the law has evolved and the effect of recent changes and decisions on the field of employment of persons with disabilities.

Topics:

  1. The Americans with Disabilities Act and the evaluation and interview process.
    - what can and can not be asked by and employer
    - how the Americans with Disabilities Act discourages the hiring a person with a disability rather than expedites it
  2. Confidentiality and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
    - department of Labor regulations
    - vocational rehabilitation medical confidentiality releases
  3. Preparing the employer for the applicant
    - legal
    - language and etiquette
  4. The myths and realities of reasonable accommodation
    - reasonable accommodation
    - undue hardship
    - direct threat
  5. Identifying reasonable accommodation.
  6. Making reasonable accommodations seem reasonable to employers.
  7. Preparing the applicant to disclose the disability to an employer.
    - when is it appropriate?
    - the most positive ways to disclose
  8. Working with employers about the Americans with Disabilities Act on a consulting basis.
    - knowing when you can help
    - knowing when you are over your head
  9. The Americans with Disabilities Act and disability management with existing employees.
  10. How the Americans with Disabilities Act interacts with other laws and their impact on rehabilitation.
  11. Making the Americans with Disabilities Act work for Vocational Rehabilitation rather than against it.