Your Rights to ADHD Accommodations at Work
The most important legal protection for workers with ADHD is the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA. The original version of the ADA was passed by Congress in 1990 and was amended in 2008 to expand and clarify its application.The ADA is essentially a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of such individual.” The law goes on to state that “major life activities include, but are not limited to, caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, bending, speaking, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working.”There is also a separate section of the ADA that further discusses what is included in the definition of disability under the law by listing the bodily systems that are affected, which include: “neurological [and] brain systems…”Yes.
Whether you view ADHD as neurological — affecting how the brain concentrates or thinks — or consider ADHD as a disability that impacts working, there is no question that the ADA covers individuals with ADHD.[Get This Free Download: Choosing Your Best Career]Courts, including the U.S.
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