Sara, Unfortunately, you seem to be clinging to an understanding of the purpose and the process of accommodation that will be problematic for you, as an instructor, and (potentially) problematic for students with disabilities in your classes. Accommodations, provided appropriately, would not disrupt a whole classroom. Small group discussions regarding the student's need would never occur in front of others, so would not interfere with anything that happens for other students in the classroom. As far as bending over backwards" -- I am not sure what that suggests. But if your intent is that instructors should not be asked to change what they do, then you are going to find yourself frustrated when the institution tells you that you must do exactly that. Students with disabilities are not being accommodations "just because they have a disability." They are being accommodated because, without it, they would not have equal access to educational opportunity. If you don't do something different, as assigned by the institution's disability services authority, you may be in violation of the law. Dr. Jane Jarrow