Are applicants and employees with disabilities required to substantiate the need for reasonable accommodation?
In some cases, yes. People with obvious or visible disabilities are not required to substantiate the need for reasonable accommodation. A person who uses a wheelchair, a person who uses a guide dog due to a vision impairment or a person who is deaf are all examples of people with obvious visible disabilities. The Department may require people with non-obvious or hidden disabilities to substantiate the need for reasonable accommodation through medical documentation. For information on what constitutes sufficient medical documentation, go to http://www.drc.dot.gov. Examples of hidden disabilities include mental impairments, HIV and learning disabilities.
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