I just sent the message below. I should have talked with the DSS director first, b/c he says he may have suggested the student ask me about using notes, but that he would not suggest it as an accomodation. I think it says a lot about our pc times that we (at least some of us) believed that DSS would make that suggestion.
I do still wonder what others think of someone with that sort of brain disorder being in college in the first place. Are we doing him a service or should he be getting some other training?
There's a broader issue here.
As the demographics of students attending post-secondary institutions shift we find a wide range of capabilities, of which students who are categorized as having some sort of learning disability are at one end of a continuum.
I think that we are continually faced with the question of whether college-as-we-know-it is appropriate for all of our students (and vice versa).
Further, what changes in the nature of what we are pleased to call higher education are being driven by these demographic changes?
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