And another thing!
Early intervention.
I don't mean early childhood; I mean early in the course. When it's 6 weeks into an 8 week course and you realize you're actually not passing because you were doing really well on half of it, but that reading part... the novel the class is reading... well, you hate reading! (Between the lines: you've been doing all your strategies for avoiding reading and thought they were working; you participated in class, etc.)
Now there are two weeks to go and ... well, gosh, it's actually a pretty good book (though reading is still not your strong point), but... can you make up for that lost time? And if the support folks had realized you were fudging that whole part we would have given serious reading support. And...the final... has a huge reading section. As in, instead of *faking* it all semester, we should have been practicing and learning how to read a passage and say intelligent things about it - and whether it might just be necessary to use accommodations to do that. (It doesn't help that the instructors of the course don't always know how to teach that process or structure the assignments to make them accessible to folks with different learning issues...)
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