Navigating Accommodation Requests in the Workplace
Wed, Jun 18
|Virtual Event
Learn how to request support in the workplace as a PWS
Time & Location
Jun 18, 2025, 8:30 PM – 9:45 PM EDT
Virtual Event
About the event
If you’ve ever been curious about what accommodations are available in the workplace, how you can go about requesting them as a person who stutters (PWS), and how it all works behind the scenes, then this upcoming interactive session is for you!
On Wednesday, June 18, from 8:30 to 9:45 PM ET, join Abhishek Agarwal, Anabel Augustin from the WeStutter@Work (WS@W) Committee, and special guest Emily Riedel, a People & Culture Coordinator, as they share options about different accommodations that are available, how to build self-advocacy skills, and discuss how organizations engage in informal and formal processes to the benefit of the employee.
Meet your hosts:
Abhishek Agarwal is a PWS and is a Co-Chapter Leader of the NSA Seattle Adult Chapter. He is quite passionate about stuttering advocacy and is deeply involved in the stuttering community. His own stuttering journey has helped him build confidence and break free from his…
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