Want to know what questions are acceptable to ask while interviewing a potential employee with a disability? Need to know whom to contact if a student or employee requests an accommodation for a disability?
Learn this and other updated information about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) at Firefly.
To access the information:
- Log on to Firefly;
- Then click on “ADA Workshop” in the UNMC Quick Connect Links.
The page contains information about recent changes to the ADA in regard to accommodating the disabilities of students, faculty and staff.
It also features webcasts of a pair of April 20 workshops — “Working with Students with Disabilities” and “ADA Briefing” — by Dr. Christy Horn, ADA Compliance Officer with University of Nebraska Central Administration.
Information on the page and in Dr. Horn’s webcasts includes:
- Suggestions for accommodating students with certain disabilities;
- Characteristics of certain disabilities;
- Definition and examples of reasonable accommodations; and
- Requesting reasonable accommodation.