Guide for Assessing Persons with Disabilities

(Under review)

July 2007

Assessment Oversight, Policy Development Directorate

Table of contents

• Overview
• Key definitions
  • Duty to accommodate
  • Merit
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Functional limitations
  • Accommodations in the assessment process
    • Types of assessment accommodations
• Legal framework
  • Canadian Human Rights Act
  • Employment Equity Act
  • Public Service Employment Act
  • Appointment Policy
  • Policy on the Duty to Accommodate Persons with Disabilities in the Federal Public Service
  • Privacy Act
• Principles for assessment accommodations
• Roles and responsibilities
  • Public Service Commission
  • Deputy heads
  • Managers and assessment boards
  • Applicants
• Determining and implementing assessment accommodations
  • Step 1 – Communicate essential information appropriately
  • Step 2 – Confer with the applicant to obtain information on functional limitations
  • Step 3 – When necessary, obtain information from a qualified professional
  • Step 4 – Determine assessment accommodations, considering all information
  • Step 5 – Inform the person with a disability of proposed assessment accommodations
  • Step 6 – Prepare and conduct the assessment session
• Standards for professional documentation
  • Who is an appropriate source?
  • What should the professional documentation include?
  • What is meant by up-to-date?
• Concerns to request assessment accommodations or to provide information
  • Handling concerns
• Issues applicable to specific disabilities
  • Vision disabilities
  • Hearing disabilities
  • Mobility or agility related disabilities
  • Learning disabilities
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Mental health disabilities
  • Chronic illnesses
  • Temporary conditions
  • Environmental Sensitivities

Appendices

• Appendix 1 – How to think inclusion by design
• Appendix 2 – Questionnaires to gather information
• Appendix 3 – Consent to release information form
• Appendix 4 – Glossary of adaptive technology and services

PDF Formats

• Guide for Assessing Persons with Disabilities – How to determine and implement assessment accommodations – PDF Format (391 Kb)
• Appendix 1 – How to think inclusion by design – PDF Format (24 Kb)
• Appendix 2 – Questionnaires to gather information – PDF Format (37 Kb)
• Appendix 3 – Consent to release information form – PDF Format (8 Kb)
• Appendix 4 – Glossary of adaptive technology and services – PDF Format (76 Kb)