[Job-Discussions] Checklist for employers

[Rachel Kuntz]

Jess, congratulations on your new job! That is incredibly awesome.  

It sounds to me that your employer is very interested in getting to know blind people which is fabulous. Others have mentioned some resources that I want to second and perhaps offer explanation. The Job accommodation network was designed with employers in mind. Your employer might find some very practical and useful information about working with anyone with a variety of disabilities there. 

When you request reasonable accommodations you will make that specific to your own needs considering many people have more than one disability that they need accommodations for. Whatever you request I would advise doing that in writing just to have a paper trail. 

Refer them to the job accommodation Netwerk for information that will of course be helpful to them to know about working with people with disabilities. There is  also some information out there on the NFB‘s website that might be helpful to them. for example the courtesy rules of blindness revised version  provides  veryhelpful tips on working with anyone who is blind. The latest version uses each  letter of the word courtesy to form the different words to remember when working with people who are blind.

Working with you however is always going to be unique so I would just suggest that you tell them that working with me is no different than working with anyone else we just have to take time to get to know each other.  

Have you had a job before? The on boarding process is often when a lot of paperwork is reviewed like medical insurance options and a variety of other things such as employee handbook stuff like that. So you will want to talk to them about the ways in which your able to most productively participate in training sessions  and read documents. 

Once again congratulations! Good luck on your new adventure. 

Rachel Kuntz
937.245.0547 cell
Rachelrkuntz at gmail.com

Live the life you want. Blindness is not what holds you back. 

> On Nov 9, 2021, at 11:43 PM, Jess Shek via Job-Discussions <job-discussions at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I will be having a new job and this is the first time my n ew employer
> hiring a blind person. They are asking if I have a checklist for them,
> so that they know how to accommodate my onboarding better, as well as
> they could have some ideas of how to get along with a blind person.
> 
> Just wanted to see if there are toolkits available for me to share
> with my new employer. Many thanks in advance!
> 
> Best regards,
> Jess
> 
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