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Learning Disabilities In The Workplace: A Guide To Ada Compliance, Hilary Greer Fike

Seattle University Law Review

This Comment is a guide for both employers and employees in successfully complying with the ADA's provisions, as they relate to persons with learning disabilities. Part II of this paper examines the types of employment discrimination that individuals with learning disabilities encounter in the application, daily work, and promotion processes. Part III provides an overview of the employment discrimination provisions of the ADA and how those provisions apply to people with learning disabilities. To illustrate how different people with learning disabilities fare in the workforce, Part IV includes narratives of two learning disabled people attempting to find equal employment and …