Having worked with individuals with learning disabilities for over a decade as a vocational rehabilitation counselor, here are some tips that I have found useful.

• Allow consumers to tell you information for required forms in an interview format rather than handing them a stack of forms to complete.
• Discuss with employers the use of special accommodations such as tape or video of policy and procedures manuals and training manuals
• vocational rehabilitation can pay for readers to record written information on tape.
• Discuss with employers extended time for task completion – it may not be necessary that the rooms are cleaned in under thirty minutes, or all data entry is done the same day.
• Arrange with employers for other alternative work arrangements, for example, whether the job requires a full-time employee or could be filled four hours a day.
• Provide new employees with an individual orientation to the workplace and equipment so that anxiety is minimized
• Label equipment, tools, and materials.
• Allow employees to use cue cards or labels that designate the steps of a process.
• Allow employees to use specialized adaptive equipment to aid in precise measurement.