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Are we being silenced by acceptance?

Are we being silenced by acceptance? Who on here attends the National Stuttering Association-NSA Conference? I attended for the first time last year because I have a teenage daughter that stutters. An...

Survivor has always been a very progressive show. Long list of players with disabilities. The player in the video, he states in the premier how he was inspired by a Survivor from the 6th season! Who w...

Yeah it's illegal to reject someone for a stutter here too but companies will still do it.  They just won't outright tell you that it's because of the stutter and risk a lawsuit. They will just cite...

I don’t know about Canada but down here in the hellscape(I mean America), stuttering is a condition protected under the Americans with Disabilities act. If we protect candidates and employees then I’d...

What companies do you know hire disabled/neurodivergent people?

What companies do you know hire disabled/neurodivergent people? I have a stutter and I get rejected from every job I apply to. Even if it's not a customer service job. But one company, in Canada, I d...

Actually I want to join the foreign services of my country, but the only problem is that I'm a stammerer and I think they won't hire me because this job is all about speaking fluently with others. So ...

In the public sector, state and federal, jobs especially hire individuals with all types of disabilities. I’ve seen employees restricted to bed-like devices, blind employees, even totally non-verbal e...

As far as prohibiting discrimination of disabled applicants for employment, the only country that I’m aware of is the US. We have hiring rights. I imagine the UK has them, too. Maybe not India. You’ll...

I don’t think stammering is a disability. As someone who is also struggling with the same problem during interviews, I believe we should go ahead and tell them about us at the beginning of the intervi...

This is true—employers don’t have to explicitly state that a person was denied a job because of their stutter. Instead, they typically send a standard rejection email, saying they’ve found a more suit...

Does stuttering considered disability? Also they didn’t explicitly say “we refuse because you stutter”, they just say “we have another candidate” and you do nothing about it....

This doesn’t matter. 99% of the time the employer won’t be stupid enough to tell you that you got rejected because of that. They simply will say that they went with another candidate....

What country are you in? I’m asking because in some, you cannot deny someone a job due to their disability...

Do employers silently discriminate against people who are speech disabled?

Do employers silently discriminate against people who are speech disabled? We all know that companies cannot discriminate by law on the basis of a disability (as well as age, sex, religion etc etc). B...

Where on earth do you get a stutter certificate? I want one to put up on my wall....

There's a provision to let the examiner know beforehand your stutter. You have to provide a certificate about it...

“The ADA defines a person with a disability as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity.” nowhere does it say that the impairment has...

The UK definition is: >You’re disabled under the Equality Act 2010 if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative effect on your ability to do normal da...

I thought the stat that u/Little_Achanthaceae87 shared the other day was pretty jarring… >There is a very high suicidal ideation rate among people who stutter - 67.9% - in a research study (2023) by ...

It's listed under the ADA act. Sometimes I joke with my buddies that I'm gonna get a handicap parking sign just to get some kind of benefit from it...