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The employer that doesn't wish to end up getting sued for violation of various state and federal laws for discrimination, failing to provide reasonable accommodations, etc.

Only if the employee disclosed such a disability prior to employment.  (The lawyers here can correct me if this is not the case).  I ran into this situation when somebody got reassigned to my team.  He was smart, hardworking, and a fun colleague.  He was a terrific project manager, mostly because of how stubborn and shameless he was.  He could not turn in a Powerpoint without massive numbers of typos.  I tried to coach him up with various techniques (e.g. proofread backwards, when you think you are done, walk to my office and turn around and not come back until you find another typo).  Powerpoint is a core basic skill set in a corporate environment. It was so frustrating I talked to him about putting him on a formal corrective action plan.  That's when he told me he was dyslexic.  God I felt like such an @$$hole.  I went back to his previous boss and asked her if she knew.  She said yes and that we could fire him, which she looked into and could because he did not disclose the disability. Anyways, I decided to just suck it up and tolerate the last remaining typos and fix themselves going forward.

You might want to have your employee install this font:  https://www.dyslexiefont.com/en/typeface/

The font is designed to help make it easier for people with dyslexia to read, by making commonly confused letters (b, p, q, d) asymmetric, and doing a whole bunch of other stuff to make it easier to read.

BC

[BostonCard]

The employer that doesn't wish to end up getting sued for violation of various state and federal laws for discrimination, failing to provide reasonable accommodations, etc.

Only if the employee disclosed such a disability prior to employment.  (The lawyers here can correct me if this is not the case).  I ran into this situation when somebody got reassigned to my team.  He was smart, hardworking, and a fun colleague.  He was a terrific project manager, mostly because of how stubborn and shameless he was.  He could not turn in a Powerpoint without massive numbers of typos.  I tried to coach him up with various techniques (e.g. proofread backwards, when you think you are done, walk to my office and turn around and not come back until you find another typo).  Powerpoint is a core basic skill set in a corporate environment. It was so frustrating I talked to him about putting him on a formal corrective action plan.  That's when he told me he was dyslexic.  God I felt like such an @$$hole.  I went back to his previous boss and asked her if she knew.  She said yes and that we could fire him, which she looked into and could because he did not disclose the disability. Anyways, I decided to just suck it up and tolerate the last remaining typos and fix themselves going forward.

You might want to have your employee install this font:  https://www.dyslexiefont.com/en/typeface/

The font is designed to help make it easier for people with dyslexia to read, by making commonly confused letters (b, p, q, d) asymmetric, and doing a whole bunch of other stuff to make it easier to read.

BC