7. Reasonable adjustments and a work skills assessment
A work skills assessment can ensure that suggested workplace adjustments are relevant and practical. Completely changing a job description or working environment may not be ‘reasonable’. Adjustments should be seen to ‘level the playing field’ so that individuals are included.
Some dyslexic people may only need sympathetic and supportive managers and colleagues. Help should always suit the context and be task focussed.
Dyslexic employees work and learn differently from their colleagues because of the way they process information.Q: Why make ‘reasonable adjustments’?
A: Because it makes good business sense.
- Carrying out a few easy and inexpensive adjustments could soon more than pay for itself.
- Making a place of employment more manageable for an employee means they are far more likely to remain loyal, which could lead to increased profitability.
- Encouraging applications from disabled people widens a company's talent pool as well as increasing chances of finding employees with the right skills and experiences.
- Treating a disabled person unfairly means that a business could have legal action taken against them.
Sometimes small, low-cost modifications are all that will be needed to support an employee with dyslexia. The ‘Access to Work’ scheme has funding available to pay for an ’Assessor In The Workplace’ to produce a work skills assessment.
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