Disclosing your Disability and Requesting Accommodations

The quality of being thankful

• Gratitude

• Self-Talk

A federal law that requires public schools to serve the educational needs of eligible students with disabilities

• Assistive Devices

• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

Tools that are designed, made, or adapted to assist a person to perform a particular task.

• Assistive Devices

• Reasonable Accommodations

A negative mental attitude of expecting the worst.

• Pessimistic

• Gratitude

To make something known.

• Disclose

• Pessimistic

The act or practice of positively talking to oneself, either aloud or silently.

• Disclose

• Self-Talk

Job duties that are fundamental to the position and the reason the job exists.

• Essential Job Functions

• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

Modifications or adjustments to a job, the work environment or how things are usually done in the hiring process.

• Essential Job Functions

• Reasonable Accommodations