FACT PATTERN 2 You are an office manager hiring a new clinical staff member. You contact an applicant, Kathy, to schedule an interview and who appears to be an ideal candidate. When you call, you realize you are calling through a TDD relay because Kathy is deaf. Kathy asks for a sign language interpreter to be present during the interview. You dont know whether the position she has applied for can be done by one who is deaf, and you dont know the first thing about hiring a sign language interpreter or what they cost.

Question 3: Should you interview Kathy? Explain. Should you ask if Kathy is willing to pay for the interpreter?

Question 4: When you interview Kathy and tell her that the requirements of the job include some phone work, she indicates that she would need a TDD machine to do that, and where possible, would prefer to use email communication. What do you do?

Question 5: You hire Kathy, and once she starts work she tells you that she needs three ten-minute breaks each day to pray, and a private place to do so. The position allows for a sixty-minute, unpaid lunch break and two ten-minute breaks. Do you have to make the accommodation, and if so, what might that accommodation be?