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[ladybronwyn]

So normally I don't call on students in class. I figure if they don't really want to talk it's not my job to make them--they're big kids, and they know they're getting graded on participation. If it's not important for them to do well on that, it's their business. Added to that, I know what it's like to be shy and uncomfortable talking in front

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[walesnightingal]

he should really be encouraged to tell teachers that up front, at the beginning of the class. most syllabi have something to that effect about "accommodations."

[kelsietrpt]

Yep. I always spend an extra amount of time on the first day of class BEGGING students to tell me if they have ANY SORT OF ISSUE that needs to be addressed (i.e.--a physical, emotional, or mental problem that might affect their academic performance). Then I tell them that I WILL NOT feel guilty if, two months later, they come up to me and tell me that they're actually deaf and haven't heard any of my lectures. NO SYMPATHY.

However, I probably would have felt guilty, too. :)

I just have so many jerk-ass students, I have a hard time mustering sympathy most days.

[ladybronwyn]

Well, I only handed back their first exam this week, so I'm expecting my sympathy to disappear at about the same time I start getting bogus complaints about grades. Ah, these naive young things who don't yet realize that what you earn has only a passing relationship with how hard you think you worked to earn it.

My Autism Spectrum Profile Won't Be Taken for Another Six Months, but . . .

[archlords]

I really should have paid attention to how much information about my diagnoses my employers are given. I don't keep these things secret, but they seem to think that I just have nervous breakdowns because I feel like it, and I can't just face them about any of these.