At the university I work for, students who have learning, mental-health, or neurological disabilities are evaluated by a central institution to get accommodations in class. These are tailored to individual students and professors are required to follow them, but the process of getting them is bureaucratic and no fun at all for the student.
Pre-pandemic, there'd be one or two students in every class with an accommodation, sometimes none. Now it's nearly half of each class. And increasing. 😬
My wife was just telling me the other day that for the first time her school was unable to process all of the IEPs for the incoming students and get them to the teachers. They're implementing a system where they're doing them in order based on how well the student's doing in class. The worse the student's grades, the higher up the list they move so they can get accommodations to them more quickly.
Hard to tell without being part of that team whether they're behind because there's just more of them or something else. Have to let it play out and see if the numbers have increased by the time my wife sees them all for her students.
