Answering the How, When, and Why of ADA Title I
Providing comprehensive training on accommodation testing to professionals for over 35 years.
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Training for Human Resources Professionals
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Building a Testing Program with ADA I
Navigating life’s intricate fabric, choices unfold paths to the extraordinary, demanding creativity, curiosity, and courage for a truly fulfilling journey.
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Navigating life’s intricate fabric, choices unfold paths to the extraordinary, demanding creativity, curiosity, and courage for a truly fulfilling journey.
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How to do it properly to benefit the people seeking accommodation, and your company.
- Effective testing prevents legal disputes
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- Benefits employers and employees
About Us
Partnering with the Return-to-Work, Stay-at-Work Specialist: Solutions for Invisible Impairment
For Human Resources Managers and the Return-to-Work, Stay-at-Work (RTW/SAW) Specialists they oversee, the challenge is clear: translating ambiguous or invisible impairments—especially those resulting from conditions like Long COVID—into clear, job-specific reasonable accommodations under Title I of the ADA. We understand the conundrum: verifying an invisible condition while simultaneously identifying effective workplace solutions. Our mission is to be your expert resource, connecting your team with specialized medical knowledge to clarify complex diagnoses and operationalize adequate, sustainable accommodation, ensuring employees can successfully return to work and remain productive. Learn how our specialized approach can transform your accommodation process.
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Kathy Langford
Kathy Langford, OTR/L, is a highly experienced occupational therapist, consultant, and leader with a career spanning over four decades in industrial rehabilitation, ergonomics, clinical care, healthcare management, and reasonable accommodation. Her expertise centers on developing and implementing solutions that enhance safety, improve workplace functionality, and facilitate successful return-to-work and aging-in-place outcomes. Her consulting work leverages this deep expertise in injury prevention, job-demand analysis, and ergonomics to identify optimal work contributions and effectively utilize personal skills.
Kathy currently runs Accommodation Works, LLC, a private practice based in Grand Junction, Colorado, where she specializes in reasonable accommodation solutions and ergonomic evaluations for private individuals, hospitals, schools, and industry. She also conducts ergonomic and home safety evaluations specifically to support individuals who are aging in place.
Dr. Leonard N. Matheson
Dr. Leonard N. Matheson, a distinguished neurorehabilitation psychologist and inventor with 55 years in the field, is uniquely equipped to assist HR professionals in managing complex long COVID cases. He originated Work Hardening and Work Capacity Evaluation and developed innovative tools such as the EPIC Lift Capacity Test and the Multidimensional Task Ability Profile, essential for objective employee assessment.
Dr. Matheson authored chapters on Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) in the American Medical Association’s Disability Evaluation textbooks, demonstrating his authority in assessing work ability. His extensive consulting background includes working with dozens of Fortune 500 corporations on safe, effective, and legal employee selection and disability case management methods. He also advised state and federal agencies for over 40 years on work disability determination, including Congressional testimony related to Social Security Disability reform and the ADA.
Dr. Matheson’s innovative work in U.S. Veterans healthcare, which developed methods to treat depression and posttraumatic headaches from combat concussions, is highly relevant to the neurological and psychological aspects of long COVID symptoms. His research consistently focuses on bridging the gap between the hospital and the workplace, making him an ideal partner for designing effective workplace accommodations and evaluations under the ADA.
Kristine M. Couch
Kristine M. Couch, OTR/L, has been an occupational therapist for 51 years. In 1986, she was introduced to the world of industrial rehabilitation. Her focus of practice was ergonomic evaluation, formal job analysis, development of ADA-compliant job descriptions, and functional capacity evaluations. Presently, her practice is solely focused on functional capacity evaluations, with an increasing emphasis on neurological illness, autoimmune disorders, and long COVID-19 illness. She works closely with specialists (neurology, rheumatology, pulmonology, and cardiology) to determine an individual’s capacities and tolerances.