Leaders/colleagues view on disabilities

Worriedmum3367

Hi,

My son has cerebral palsy with spasticity and dystonia and is a manual wheelchair user and works full time. He loves and enjoys his job. He works in Customer Service and does a lot of pushing in his wheelchair to support customers resulting to getting calisis on his hands and tired. His leader says to the team “keep on the move” which he does because why is his hands in a state and tired with pushing. His footrest broke at work last week and no one asked if he was ok just piling tasks onto him when it happened. Why are leaders/colleagues like this?

Regards

Worried Mum

Lucy_Scope

Hi Worriedmum3367,

I am sorry to hear your son is experiencing such difficulty.

As people have mentioned, it would be worth your son speaking to his manager about his disability. This article may be useful about how to have these conversations.

Best wishes,

Lucy