This study, based on survey data from 229 employees with hearing impairments and an expert panel, confirmed previous findings that employees with disabilities frequently refrain from making requests for accommodations they need. In this study, the accommodations most relevant to workplace PAS (WPAS) were professional notetakers, sign language interpreters, computer-aided transcription, and co-worker or supervisor assistance with writing down words to supplement oral communication. Across all different kinds of accommodations, the monetary cost and sense of imposition on others contributed directly and indirectly to employees deciding not to ask for an accommodation, even when it would clearly help them in their work. Findings also showed that monetary costs and imposition on others negatively influenced employee's perceptions of the social costs of asking for the accommodation. Perceived social costs made it less likely that employees would request needed accommodations in the future.

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