Handout A

Test Your Reasonable Accommodation Knowledge

Find out how much you know about 'reasonable accommodations' by answering the following questions. Do your best to answer as many as you can.

  1. True or False: Employers do not benefit by providing accommodations.

  2. Name four examples of accommodations or auxiliary aids:

  3. What is 'reasonable accommodation?'
  4. True or False: Seventy-five percent of job accommodations that cost money cost less than $500.00.

    5. When an employer or public accommodation can not provide an accommodation due to an "undue hardship,&qout that means:

  5. True or False: An employer who offers a pre-employment test to applicants must provide auxiliary aids for persons with impaired manual or speaking skills (such as Braille, large print, or taped examination).

  6. True or False: If an employee discloses his or her disability and asks for an accommodation, the employer has to give the employee what he or she requested.

  7. Name Four examples of businesses or places that fall under the Public Accommodations section of the ADA that must provide accommodations on request:

  8. True or False: The ADA does not require any accommodation or auxiliary aid to be provided that would result in an undue burden or in a fundamental alternation (changes the meaning or focus) on the nature of goods or services provided by a public accommodation.


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