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<blockquote data-quote="RamblinRed" data-source="post: 877603" data-attributes="member: 1776"><p>I am going to start a thread here about accommodations for people with disabilities. There has been some discussion in a thread on the football board but this topic is better suited to this one.</p><p></p><p>As a father of a child who is on the Autism spectrum accommodations are an important topic to me. We have a son who is incredibly smart (he is actually in Mensa based on testing done with a psychologist ), but he struggles in recognizing some social cues and also has processing disorders where it takes him longer to process information in his brain and then transmit that back to his body. When he was in public schools he had 529 plans, though we eventually took him out of public schools due to bullying by other kids and a teacher. The majority of the time you would not even know he was on the spectrum, but there are other times when it is very obvious.</p><p></p><p>There are certainly families that take advantage of the system, but when used correctly it allows people who have alot to contribute to our society a chance to do so. I'm glad that many universities (including GT - which like all public universities has to provide reasonable accommodations and actually has a program specifically for Autistic individuals) and alot of businesses recognize this and are taking steps to allow individuals like my son to be able to grow and make contributions to our society.</p><p></p><p>Just like all kids my son is very like me in some ways and different from me in other ways (I love sports, he doesn't care about them in the least. I'm really good at math, my son definitely is not. But my son is incredibly creative and a big outside the box thinker, which I am not). But it is important to me that he has a chance to go after his dreams and be a productive member of society and the accommodations we have been able to get for him over the years give him a better chance of getting there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RamblinRed, post: 877603, member: 1776"] I am going to start a thread here about accommodations for people with disabilities. There has been some discussion in a thread on the football board but this topic is better suited to this one. As a father of a child who is on the Autism spectrum accommodations are an important topic to me. We have a son who is incredibly smart (he is actually in Mensa based on testing done with a psychologist ), but he struggles in recognizing some social cues and also has processing disorders where it takes him longer to process information in his brain and then transmit that back to his body. When he was in public schools he had 529 plans, though we eventually took him out of public schools due to bullying by other kids and a teacher. The majority of the time you would not even know he was on the spectrum, but there are other times when it is very obvious. There are certainly families that take advantage of the system, but when used correctly it allows people who have alot to contribute to our society a chance to do so. I'm glad that many universities (including GT - which like all public universities has to provide reasonable accommodations and actually has a program specifically for Autistic individuals) and alot of businesses recognize this and are taking steps to allow individuals like my son to be able to grow and make contributions to our society. Just like all kids my son is very like me in some ways and different from me in other ways (I love sports, he doesn't care about them in the least. I'm really good at math, my son definitely is not. But my son is incredibly creative and a big outside the box thinker, which I am not). But it is important to me that he has a chance to go after his dreams and be a productive member of society and the accommodations we have been able to get for him over the years give him a better chance of getting there. [/QUOTE]
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