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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happens to the students who get double time in the real world? Do their careers allow them extra time for deadlines? I’m not being snarky, really wondering.[/quote]

They learn more executive function skills as they go along, or learn ways to accomodate them.   And they choose jobs/careers where these issues don't matter as much.   Once you are out of school and can focus your energies on the things that you are interested in/enjoy/are more successful at, life gets easier.[/quote]

I hate the argument my own kid has had to hear from their dept chair that they won't get extended time at their job. The professor doesn't need to focus on this aspect of the job for my kid. Also I'm a software engineer and have seen both private sector and government employers work with employees with disabilities. The ignorance in assuming what the working world looks like makes me angry. We work in teams and are very used to working with employees with these issues. Some academics need to get out of their bubbles. My kid is at a small college that is supposedly very supportive of students with disabilities. My kid's dept heads are not and have been refusing to give kid the accommodations the school agreed to. One of the profs likes to humiliate the kids with disabilities - made one student with dyslexia read out loud in the class when they never do that, made a kid with dysgraphia hand write stuff in front of class when they don't do that. I no longer support the school and am trying to talk my kid in to transferring. The worst professors are the ones that went to top notch schools like Stanford yet teach at this small not very well rated school. Their goal is to exclude  students with differences from college. [/quote]

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