Re: accommodations at internship - seeking advice

[Guest guest]

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Get in touch with an ADA rep immediately and the Education Office

for Civil Rights

http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm 800-514-0301 (voice)

http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/index.html

http://www.ed.gov/about/contacts/gen/index.html?src=gu#tollfree (has

toll free phone numbers)

Sounds like your internship 'directors' are 1) trying to get you to

blaze a trail for them (i.e., work they should be doing) and/or 2)

sounds like they may possibly not want to 'comply' with

accommodations and thus it is 'easier' for them to tell you your

internship will end.

Graduate school and interships are MUCH tougher than anything I ever

experienced in the 'real world'. I had a similiar experience, way

before the ADA, back in 1975, I fought it, got what I wanted - the

hours of school, the hours of internship - but I literally ended up

writing the school's 'new policy' for them.

OK, now, about your health - this is extremely important. You are

sounding majorly stressed. Just a suggestion, can you take a Medical

Leave of Absence for one semester, get rested up, get this

internship cra* settled, and prepare to forge ahead? I didn't do

this, and instead of caring for myself #1, I ended up with Rheumatic

Fever, 2 weeks in the hospital, followed by a semester of grave,

medical restrictions. I wish I had just done the Medical LOA when my

doc first suggested it.

Let me know how this goes for you.

~ Gretchen