Civil Rights, ADA, Reasonable Accommodations, Militancy

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The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is a US labor law that protect people with disabilities against discriminatory practices by others. This law addresses things like if you must use a wheel chair, you are not expected to go to court, to a job or to a store with steps that prevent you from entering the building. Ramps are the most common solution for building owners to abide by this law. A wheelchair ramp is called a reasonable accommodation to the needs of those who cannot walk up steps. Such accommodations are called reasonable because it is not fantastically expensive. For example, if you needed a helicopter to get to a building others could walk to, giving you the use of a helicopter would probably be decided to be and unreasonable accommodation.

AS is a disability. What reasonable accommodations do you experience for your disability from the greater NT culture?  What reasonable accommodations do you see that are missing in your experience of daily life life?

I'm starting a work placement tomorrow and my accommodations are as follows;

-Shadowing a single staff member on first day as opposed to switching between all staff.
-Plan for each days session emailed in advance.
-Carrying out office work in a smaller space as opposed to the main office.
-Regular check ins.

I did a study including ADA accommodations for autism last year. I was lucky and also got people from other countries to tell me about their accommodations.

Many people talked about:
-Flex time
-Changing lights
-Private offices or moving desk locations to a place of their choosing
-Choosing how to communicate with people (via email, telephone, in-person, etc)
-Availability of stim toys
-Stepping out of more social responsibilities
-Help with organization and/or planning

A lot of people got their accommodations not officially, but as favors in exchange for other common kindnesses, such as doing a piece of a co-workers tasks that were easy for them but hard for the co-worker.