Accomodations in college- experience

[Anonymous]

My son needed a private room and bathroom because he has Crohn's disease and is on Remicade, which can suppress his immune system. His doctor wrote a letter explaining the need, which we sent to the Disability Accommodations Office (or whatever it's called-I can't remember exactly at the moment) at UMBC and he had no problems at all getting a private room and bath.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son needed a private room and bathroom because he has Crohn's disease and is on Remicade, which can suppress his immune system. His doctor wrote a letter explaining the need, which we sent to the Disability Accommodations Office (or whatever it's called-I can't remember exactly at the moment) at UMBC and he had no problems at all getting a private room and bath.

These aren't the kind of accommodations we are talking about. I'm glad you were able to get that without a problem but that doesn't have anything to do with academic accommodations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son needed a private room and bathroom because he has Crohn's disease and is on Remicade, which can suppress his immune system. His doctor wrote a letter explaining the need, which we sent to the Disability Accommodations Office (or whatever it's called-I can't remember exactly at the moment) at UMBC and he had no problems at all getting a private room and bath.

These aren't the kind of accommodations we are talking about. I'm glad you were able to get that without a problem but that doesn't have anything to do with academic accommodations.

Actually, some universities will provide dormitory assistance for mental LDs. My DS is Aspergers/ADHD/Anxiety. His GMU plan gives him the right to a single room with shared bath. But there is a surcharge for the single. Money well spent.

[Anonymous]

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+1 Professors are not teachers: they are academics whose primary focus is/should be their own writing/research (there is a big difference between "teaching" and "professing"). It is insulting to a a professor to expect him/her to be "be on top of" students who can't complete work on their own accord. University is not Romper Room or high school, and not everyone belongs at a university. Professors should not be expected to devote time to "staying on top of" Special Education students. The very idea is absurd. Do you also expect your child's employer to "stay on top of" your kid to ensure that he/she "keeps up with" tasks at work after college?


+2 it's counterproductive to hope for a professor to be on top of a student about their work. I would hope you would want your child to be a responsible employee and having their hand held in college is not going to do that. I have a friend from school that had a crap load of accomadations in place. He did fine but after graduation he could not keep a job. He graduated grad school in 2009 and has had 15 jobs. Been fired from every single one.

+3. It's time to take off the training wheels when you're in college.

If for no other reason than that I, as an employer, want to see an accurate reflection of your abilities when I look at your application profile. If I'm intrigued by your 3.5, I also need to know if you were able to achieve that because you were given 150% more time to complete assignments and your instructors were required to limit the number of assignments they gave you and your teachers were forced to have mandatory explanatory meetings after class, for as long as you needed.

Because you know what? I'm not going to give you 150% more time to get stuff done than I give to your coworkers. I'm not going to minimize the number of projects you're assigned, and I'm sure as hell not going to stay late at the office or be available by phone to teach you our division's objectives in a way that is most digestible to you.

Do you allow your employees the use of a calculator? Do you have at least one other person review work before it is sent to a client? Do you allow your employees to use a PC/laptop with Word or other similar program? Do you allow your employees to bring in a desk chair (at their own expense) that is better for them? Those are the types of accomodations my DC needs in school.

If your require your employees to analyze the hidden meaning in various fictional works, then my DC will not be working for you. Otherwise, who knows.

+10! Same here. My child can do all technical things. (Math, science, programming). But terrible with social studies and writing. I am sure he will eventually become a great engineer, who would not need any accommodations (he can do e-mails and power points quite well). By the way, in all real research places, there is a technical writer who is not real scientist, but who correct scientists' writing and make sure that their proposals are "readable."

[Anonymous]

DD got the same accommodations she had in high school. Her SLAC was very accommodating. All we needed was a letter from her high school, no further evaluations needed. She gets extra time for tests, and she gets to take them in a quiet environment away from other kids. That was a trigger for her anxiety in high school, so the (private) school allowed her those accommodations. She does have a LD diagnosis, but it's for something different. We felt very lucky the college was so easy to deal with. The accommodations relieved DD's anxiety a lot, and she's doing well in college.