Disabilities can be physical or mental, temporary or permanent. Leeds Morelli & Brown has received an increasing number of calls regarding requests for accommodations or appealing denial of requests for accommodations from students with learning disabilities ranging from early child hood to adulthood. The Americans with Disabilities Act forbids employers from discriminating against an individual on the basis of a disability, perceived disability, or a record of disability. At Leeds Morelli & Brown we have helped clients get accommodations at work, in school classes, and on standardized tests such as the SAT, LSAT, and MCAT. Leeds Morelli & Brown believes that disabled employees should be given the same opportunities as their counterparts when that can be accomplished through a reasonable accommodation.

Some of the accommodations that are available to students have been listed by the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University. Examples of these accommodations can be viewed at: http://www.bu.edu/cpr/reasaccom/educa-accom.html. Leeds Morelli & Brown believes that through awareness, people with disabilities can better request and specify needed accommodations. When denied accommodation, Leeds Morelli & Brown zealously fights to obtain the reasonable accommodation entitled to our clients. Leeds Morelli & Brown wants to increase the awareness of those rights to all students, and the parents of students with disabilities.

According to some studies, it has been found that people who have a history of receiving accommodations for a disability are more likely to be granted accommodations when applying subsequently. Leeds Morelli & Brown has discovered that one of the leading reasons applicants are denied accommodations is due to lack of documentation and/or not following proper procedure. In order to reduce denial of necessary accommodations, Leeds Morelli & Brown wants to be more active in educating the community.

Leeds Morelli & Brown’s objective is to create a blog for the purpose of educating students and the parents of disabled students of their rights to accommodations and the proper methods for obtaining such accommodations. At Leeds Morelli & Brown, we are passionate about making sure that none of our clients are prevented from enjoying any of the rights to which they are entitled.