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Employment Accommodation

Introduction to Employer Accommodations

ASL This section of the website will explain aspects of workplace accommodation and what it means to make a workplace Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Deaf-Blind accessible. In many cases, employers will find that having Deaf employees is easier than you think. It is not overly complicated, and does not require large or expensive changes.

Quoted from the Canadian Association of the Deaf website:

ASL "The facts suggest that the primary reason why Deaf people can only find work in the Deaf community is because of barriers to their participation in "normal" society. Potential employers may be reluctant to hire Deaf workers because of assumptions that communicating with them is "too much trouble" and meeting their needs in the workplace would impose a financial strain... for example, employers are frequently unaware that the cost of interpreters is a deductible business expense, and that other means of accommodation (such as TTYs and visual alarms) can be subsidized by both federal and provincial incentive programs."

Quoted from the AccessWORKS website:

ASL The facts suggest that the primary reason why Deaf people can only find work in the Deaf community is because of barriers to their participation in "normal" society. Potential employers may be reluctant to hire Deaf workers because of assumptions that communicating with them is "too much trouble" and meeting their needs in the workplace would impose a financial strain... for example, employers are frequently unaware that the cost of interpreters is a deductible business expense, and that other means of accommodation (such as TTYs and visual alarms) can be subsidized by both federal and provincial incentive programs."