Posted on 07/08/2017 7:00:17 AM PDT by KeyLargo
USMC Vet: Employer Won't Let Me Come to Work With PTSD Service Dog
A United States Marine Corps veteran who suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder said his employer won't let him come to work with his service dog.
Yauncey Long said Cincinnati Bell, a Midwest telecomm company, refused to let him work in the company of his service dog, C4.
Long said he's gotten pushback from the company, including "unsatisfactory" responses from management, after he applied for reasonable accommodations.
He said he was sent home every day for a week without pay after he came to work with C4.
Long said the company treated C4 "as if it was an option" rather than an accommodation for a wounded Purple Heart recipient.
(Excerpt) Read more at insider.foxnews.com ...
Yeah, my 23 yo daughter gets all kindsa P.O.ed at me when I tell her exactly that.
"hmmm", yourself.
YOu been in his shoes?
My grandson, who was in the "Most dangerous place on earth" in the 'ghan - and in over 600 firefights -now has a service dog. He named it "Spectre"- That dog has been a HUGE factor in his getting his life back.
\These soldiers have earned the right to name their Service Dogs whatever the hell they want.
'his will" or the LAW.
Too many people flaunting the law - and as to getting another job - - not a lot of jobs open to vets with PTSD...which is why the law needs to be enforced.
I see a law suit and a million dollar pay out for the company.
My doctor insisted I get handicapped plates - I did not ask for them.
I'm in my 80's, with CHF and osteoporosis...which would often mean, if I could not find a space near the entrance, I would have to take a chance I could get back to the car okay - or just go home.
Hoping you never have an 'invisible' disability - but I foresee it in your future. The Powers that be have a way of making judgemental folk have the opportunity to learn. :)
it’s not the law that you get to have your comfort animal
II. Service Animal Defined by Title II and Title III of the ADA
A service animal means any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability. Tasks performed can include, among other things, pulling a wheelchair, retrieving dropped items, alerting a person to a sound, reminding a person to take medication, or pressing an elevator button.
Emotional support animals, comfort animals, and therapy dogs are not service animals under Title II and Title III of the ADA. Other species of animals, whether wild or domestic, trained or untrained, are not considered service animals either. The work or tasks performed by a service animal must be directly related to the individual’s disability. It does not matter if a person has a note from a doctor that states that the person has a disability and needs to have the animal for emotional support. A doctor’s letter does not turn an animal into a service animal.
Examples of animals that fit the ADA’s definition of “service animal” because they have been specifically trained to perform a task for the person with a disability:
· Guide Dog or Seeing Eye® Dog1 is a carefully trained dog that serves as a travel tool for persons who have severe visual impairments or are blind.
· Hearing or Signal Dog is a dog that has been trained to alert a person who has a significant hearing loss or is deaf when a sound occurs, such as a knock on the door.
· Psychiatric Service Dog is a dog that has been trained to perform tasks that assist individuals with disabilities to detect the onset of psychiatric episodes and lessen their effects. Tasks performed by psychiatric service animals may include reminding the handler to take medicine, providing safety checks or room searches, or turning on lights for persons with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, interrupting self-mutilation by persons with dissociative identity disorders, and keeping disoriented individuals from danger.
· SSigDOG (sensory signal dogs or social signal dog) is a dog trained to assist a person with autism. The dog alerts the handler to distracting repetitive movements common among those with autism, allowing the person to stop the movement (e.g., hand flapping).
· Seizure Response Dog is a dog trained to assist a person with a seizure disorder. How the dog serves the person depends on the person’s needs. The dog may stand guard over the person during a seizure or the dog may go for help. A few dogs have learned to predict a seizure and warn the person in advance to sit down or move to a safe place.
Under Title II and III of the ADA, service animals are limited to dogs. However, entities must make reasonable modifications in policies to allow individuals with disabilities to use miniature horses if they have been individually trained to do work or perform tasks for individuals with disabilities.
III. Other Support or Therapy Animals
While Emotional Support Animals or Comfort Animals are often used as part of a medical treatment plan as therapy animals, they are not considered service animals under the ADA. These support animals provide companionship, relieve loneliness, and sometimes help with depression, anxiety, and certain phobias, but do not have special training to perform tasks that assist people with disabilities. Even though some states have laws defining therapy animals, these animals are not limited to working with people with disabilities and therefore are not covered by federal laws protecting the use of service animals. Therapy animals provide people with therapeutic contact, usually in a clinical setting, to improve their physical, social, emotional, and/or cognitive functioning.
https://adata.org/publication/service-animals-booklet
Nobody is going to make an issue out of an 80-year old man parking in a handicapped parking space. It's the 30-year old morbidly obese land whales that I have an issue with.
At any rate, so many people these days have "invisible disabilities" that it'll soon be pointless to even bother with handicapped parking. The spots will always be taken.
Yeah, and if a customer with severe allergies has a medical emergency due to pet dander left in their home then the employer is in violation of the law too.
How about abandon your kneejerk defence of socialism and see if someone can help you replace your socialism with at least a thimble full of common sense.
https://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/ptsd-overview/basics/history-of-ptsd-vets.asp
The above is a link to the VA Department discussion of the history of what is now known as PTSD, formerly known as battle fatigue and shell shock. It is not something limited to this generation. Many soldiers of previous generations were not able to function when they returned. This generation is lucky to find better ways of helping our vets.
Vets (and other sufferers) have been completely incapacitated by PTSD. I imagine some of the vets who live on the streets are some of those people.
So, just because my grandfather’s symptoms were limited to the night, so he still could function, I’m not supposed to feel sympathy for those who have it worse? If there had been something which could have relieved my grandfather’s nightmares, even if it was a dog, should I have just told him to tough it out like previous generations did (except of course those who couldn’t).
If a dog helps a person —who fought and risked their life to keep me safe and free— to heal or simply to be able to continue their lives, I am all for it.
I don’t think that those who have gone into war zones, and into areas with land mines and IEDs are snowflakes, even if they do come back suffering in reaction to some of the unspeakable experiences they have had.
My husband allows dogs in his office. No complaints from anyone.
Sorry bro but that ain't ever gonna happen in my lifetime.......
Veteran Yauncey Long earned every single advantage in life that this system entitles him to, including employer accommodation for his military related issues............
For you to imply that he has no right to such help shows that you're nothing but a worthless POS who obviously has never served in the military.............
Get lost jerk.........
Bullcrap.
His veteran status does not make your socislism not socialism.
Pet dander is a medical problem for people with allergies to it, and a severe problem for people with severe allergies to it.
Your insistence that government force be used to send this dog into peoples homes is loopy.
And don’t try pulling that veteran crap on me. I joined the marines at seventeen. I served three tours, spent my time fighting in the catbox across the sea, and got out after the Soviet collapse.
I also spent four years in treatment for PTSD. PTSD is not a lifetime injury like an amputation. It is more like a broken leg that healed wrong. The man needs to spend time in treatment to reduce the unprocessed events into mere unpleasant memories and he can get his life back.
What happened to him is not a reason to potentially cause medical problems for random strangers.
I’m a dog lover, too. But in Pennsylvania, all a person has to do is claim their animal is a service animal and they must be allowed to bring their animal wherever they want. It’s abused like crazy, as you can imagine.
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