Sherry-Lynn, Sorry -- I am going to have to disagree with you all along the way. You DO need to know what accommodations are needed (so that you can provide them) but you generally do NOT need to know the nature of the disability. To suggest that knowing the nature of the disability might compromise the student's right to confidentiality is simply wrong. To suggest that students are obligated to discuss how and why they need the accommodations is contrary to law. This is about equal access to education, not about special programming. Dr. Jane Jarrow