Services Offered

• Review clinical assessments thoroughly as a diagnosis is not automatically considered a disability
• Write a rational tying accommodation provisions to disabilities assessments
• Provide accommodation requests within an organization's policy guidelines
• Teach self-advocacy to clients with a variety of disabilities to work within their organization's policy structure
  
  
  • Asperger’s Syndrome
  • High Functioning Autism
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Non-Verbal Learning Disorder
  • ADHD
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Other Health Impaired

Services Explained

The ILU’s goal is to provide persons with disabilities needed access to as many learning and working environments as possible. To meet this goal, the ILU counsels persons with disabilities about the kinds of adjustments that would make these contexts more user friendly to them. We will assist you to articulate your disability in terms of what you need.

Accommodations are intended to limit the impact of a disability of an individual on his or her learning or working environment. This equal opportunity for access should be done in a way that will not compromise the instructor’s (if in a school setting) or the employer’s (if in a work environment) expectations of that individual.

• Review Clinical Assessments
  The ILU can help individual clients frame the context of the issues at hand in terms clearly defining a disability from the evidence of medical of psychological evaluations presented to us.
   
• A Diagnosis is NOT Automatically a Disability
  Little is known, even amongst medical and psychological professionals, that a statement of a diagnosis or medical condition may not qualify a person for the legal and policy protections given to persons with the “disabled” designate. (As an example, most insurance carriers traditionally do not reimburse for LD and ADHD testing.)
  
  Colleges and standardized testing companies often will not consider a clinician’s diagnosis as enough in itself to evidence a disability. This is due to the fact that many clinicians might be unaware of the limitations of their authority. While clinicians may write drug prescriptions relieving a disabling condition, that same documentation may be not satisfy an individual organization’s policy standard for defining a condition as disabling.
  
  Many organizations, including colleges and standardized testing companies, have different standards which define a disability. This confusion of policy standards may mean that a person can be defined as disabled in one instance and not disabled in another instance.
   
• Write Accommodation Requests within an Organization's Policy Guidelines
  In order to receive legal protections accompanying the designation of a disability certain written language must be applied to whatever statement is developed on behalf of the patient.
  
  The ILU team is well practiced at helping clinicians develop this language. We also know how to align different clinical documentation gathered from a myriad of different treatment plans and diagnostic rubrics into viable focused evidence that will satisfy most organizational standards.
   
• Teach Self-Advocacy to Clients within their Organization's Policy Framework
  We will work with you to ensure that you are fully skilled in articulating the parameters of your disability as well as your possible needs to an employer or college or school. Each organization is different and may require a different approach toward engaging the respective accommodations system.