He refused to take part in the accommodation process, and refused the move to a more private area with frequent breaks to help him manage the stress that he stated was exacerbating his condition. With no assistance from medical documentation as he refused to cooperate, the employer determined that he was no longer qualified for the position as he was unable to complete the essential functions of his position. An employer who had just hired a new employee with Tourette Syndrome was shocked when he discovered that the employee was making sexually offensive comments to female coworkers as well as passing around lewd pictures he had drawn.
Since no accommodation had previously been found to be effective, the employer terminated this employee. Due to Tourette Syndrome an office employee had vocalizations that disturbed his co-workers. He asked for a stress-free environment in order to reduce the vocalizations. In order for his employer to reduce or eliminate stress, he had to know specifics.
The employee was able to explain the day-to-day issues that caused his stress to escalate so the employer could work with him to help reduce it. Close Menu. A A A Text Size. Print This Page. Tourette Syndrome home disabilities. Accommodation and Compliance: Tourette Syndrome. On This Page. About Tourette Syndrome Tourette Syndrome TS is a neurological disorder that is characterized by brief, sudden, repetitive, and unusual involuntary movements or unwanted sounds called tics.
Accommodating Employees with Tourette Syndrome People with Tourette Syndrome may develop some of the limitations discussed below, but seldom develop all of them. Questions to Consider: What limitations is the employee experiencing? What specific job tasks are problematic as a result of these limitations? What accommodations are available to reduce or eliminate these problems? Are all possible resources being used to determine possible accommodations? Has the employee been consulted regarding possible accommodations?
Once accommodations are in place, would it be useful to meet with the employee to evaluate the effectiveness of the accommodations and to determine whether additional accommodations are needed? It does mean that you will need to prove that your condition is equivalent to a condition which is listed in its effects on your ability to perform work. Alternately, you can prove that your condition affects your residual functional capacity ability to perform job related tasks so severely that you cannot reasonably be expected to work.
You will especially want to include information which effects:. The claims and appeals process for Social Security disability is long. Most claims are denied, leaving the claimant with the choice of dropping his claim or pursuing a long appeals process. These are usually there in the context of what the agency does and the services they provide. There are many people with Tourette Syndrome TS who are able to receive disability benefits.
As you might already know, TS can be very different from person to person. The tics can be very simple or very complex and often people with TS are also impacted by co-occurring conditions which could cause more difficulties than the tics. Tourette syndrome is now evaluated under Social Security's impairment listing The listing requirements are the same for adults and children.
For disability applicants with Tourette's, the listing states that an individual must experience recurrent motor movement or vocalization. In addition, the individual must have an "extreme" limitation of one of the following areas of mental functioning, or a severe limitation in two of them:. An RFC is a detailed report that will discuss how your Tourette's affects your ability to perform certain work-related activities.
A physical RFC will assess the impact of your Tourette's on your ability to perform certain physical activities, while a mental RFC will assess the impact on certain mental activities. A physical RFC for a person with severe Tourette's might state that he or she would be unable to perform any jobs that required the ability to balance, climb, or work around heavy or dangerous machinery.
This limitation results from the spontaneous nature of the disease and how physical tics could compromise the worker's, and his or her co-workers', safety. A person with this RFC would be unable to perform most warehouse jobs, construction work including painting , and any agricultural work that involved heavy machinery. Tourette syndrome can also adversely affect fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
An RFC for a person with diminished fine motor skills or hand-eye coordination might state that he or she has a decreased ability to use his or her hands and fingers to hold, manipulate, finger and feel small objects. This limitation would make it difficult to do jobs that involved typing, sorting, and most assembly work. Jobs that require these skills include data entry, secretarial, and light industrial positions. A mental RFC assesses how a person's impairment affects his or her ability to perform mental and emotional work-related activities like following directions, completing tasks without assistance, getting along with others, interacting with authority, and working with others without distracting them.
Because the symptoms of Tourette's are frequently disruptive, it can have a significant impact on workplace productivity.
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