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Reasonable adjustments at work

Magnolia1

I am a primary school music teacher. I have just been diagnosed and have a meeting with my head this afternoon about putting strategies in place to help me.

What reasonable adjustments can I ask for ?

I feel really anxious about it as I have been doing this job for ten years (they know I have struggled) but now there is a legal reason they have to help me but I just don't know what I can ask for. 

Any ideas welcome !

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  • Hi, it depends on how and where you struggle, so I'd suggest starting from there. People struggle with so many different things that it's hard to generalise, but you might want to ponder on each of the common areas maybe? Sensory processing, Executive Function (Planning, cognition, memory), Social interaction......).

    I started the path to diagnosis because I knew I had sensory and executive function issues alongside social limitations, so I had a starting point there. I expanded that into a big list of common situations / tasks at work and colour-coded them to indicate how much stress they caused and what the payback in job satisfaction was, then prioritised the most beneficial changes.

    For me in your situation it would be "keep me away from kids and noise" which wouldn't really be practical for a primary school music teacher :-)

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  • Hi, it depends on how and where you struggle, so I'd suggest starting from there. People struggle with so many different things that it's hard to generalise, but you might want to ponder on each of the common areas maybe? Sensory processing, Executive Function (Planning, cognition, memory), Social interaction......).

    I started the path to diagnosis because I knew I had sensory and executive function issues alongside social limitations, so I had a starting point there. I expanded that into a big list of common situations / tasks at work and colour-coded them to indicate how much stress they caused and what the payback in job satisfaction was, then prioritised the most beneficial changes.

    For me in your situation it would be "keep me away from kids and noise" which wouldn't really be practical for a primary school music teacher :-)

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