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JAN Webcast: Accommodating Employees with Learning Disabilities

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST, March 08, 2016   |   Organized by: Job Accommodation Network (JAN)

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Date/Time: Tuesday March 8, 2016 from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Eastern Time

Location: Webinar

Description: Learning Disabilities refer to a number of disorders which may affect the acquisition, organization, retention, understanding or use of verbal or nonverbal information.  These disorders may cause impairments in the mental processes involved in perceiving, thinking, remembering and / or learning. And because these disorders affect learning in individuals who otherwise demonstrate average and above average abilities essential for thinking and/or reasoning, employers often find it difficult to understand the limitations that aren’t clearly seen. Joins us for a better understanding of the limitations associated with learning disabilities and learn about effective accommodation options. Documentation of a learning disability will also be discussed.

JAN Webcasts are available at no cost. Gather your employees together in a room for live, in-service training. Educate yourself, management, and other employees on disability etiquette, assistive technologies, management techniques, and the latest on accommodations and the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). All Webcasts begin at 2 pm eastern and are 1 hour. You must register to attend. One registration is equivalent to one login.

JAN’s Annual Webcast Series 2015/2016. Register here. Archive here.

Housekeeping: How JAN Webcasts Work

Registrations are for a single computer, not a person. Any number of people may participate at that computer through the single Web link provided by the registration. The login URL will be emailed to the address with which you registered the day before the Webcast.



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Melanie Whetzel, M. A., CBIS

Melanie joined the JAN staff as a consultant on the Cognitive / Neurological Team in February 2008. She has a fourteen year history of teaching and advocating for students with disabilities in the public school system.

Melanie holds a Master of Arts degree in Special Education, a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, and has earned sixty hours above masters’ level. Her post-graduate work has been primarily focused on special education. She most recently completed a graduate certification in Career Planning and Placement for Youth in Transition.

As a member of the Cognitive / Neurological Team, Melanie specializes in learning disabilities, mental impairments, developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, and brain injuries. She became a certified brain injury specialist in December 2014.

Kelsey Lewis, MSW, LGSW

Kelsey joined the JAN team on the Cognitive/Neurological team in 2014. Before coming to JAN, Kelsey completed an internship as a therapist for adolescents experiencing addiction in addition to mental health conditions in a residential setting.

Kelsey holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in Social Work (minor in Religious Studies) from West Virginia University. She has great interest in policy and how it affects at-risk populations. Kelsey specializes in learning disabilities, mental impairments, developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, and brain injuries.

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