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It's also a legal liability. He's just banned devices relied on by disabled students. His "alternative exam" will also not meet the requirements of many disabil

• 8ig8 13y ago
  > Personal medical devices (particularly hearing aids) are allowed, however. That's the next paragraph in that section of the syllabus. So I guess he's covered. Aside: Odd that hearing aids are emphasized here.
  • nknighthb 13y ago
    The necessary accommodations for my disability (explicitly recognized in paperwork from the college I started to go to, in case I ran into an instructor who decided they were a priest of the Church of the Luddite) do not include anything that meets any common definition, legal or otherwise, of "medical device". One might, under a broad definition, call them "assistive devices", but somehow I doubt this professor is going to recognize a common laptop or a tape recorder, among other things, as such, and he's going to embarrass, humiliate, and just generally make life difficult for any disabled student who attempts to argue with him.
• bphogan 13y ago
  No, probably not. Most likely there's an uncomfortable process disabled students have to go through to get their disability documented, and then the student brings documentation to the instructor or professor who makes the accommodations stated in the plan given to the student by the ADA coordinator of the school. Trumps the syllabus always. I was a disabled student. Now I teach. It's how I've seen it work everywhere.
• HugoLoft 13y ago
  Disabled student in his class. Can confirm we are exempt.