A few terms ago I had an strange situation when dealing with a couple of disabled students. I've dealt with physically and learning disabled students before, with greater or lesser success, but that term I was assigned a deaf girl in my COM class that had a Master Course Outline which pegged 60% of the grade to speeches. I immediately thought of all kinds of issues, and went to my education director to get an okay on what I wanted to do to modify the class to prevent problems. I was instructed to modify as little as possible in regards to dealing with her, and essentially to not anticipate problems that weren't yet present. So I ended up talking with her and explaining that I needed her to arrange to have the same interpreter that she practiced her speeches with on the days that she gave her speeches. This meant she needed to be allocated a couple more hours a week to practice with her interpreter so that she and the interpreter were in sync and hitting the time requirements. This was almost the opposite of another student that I had the same term. A student continually got F's on his written work and speeches, essentially giving me poor work that had nothing to do with what was asked of him. Eventually (after the point of no return, grades-wise) I went to student services and asked them if the student had been tested for dyslexia or some other learning disability. His adviser said "Wait, let me get this straight, he didn't bring you an ADA sheet when he started the class?" and then put his head on his desk and make a sad noise. We had a sit down with the student and he agreed that when he re-took the class he would actually show me his documentation so that I could explain his assignments to him and check in with his tutors to see how he was doing. Am I the only one who gets disabled students who just throw them for a loop? I know they're students and individuals first and only afterward are disabled individuals, but when I layer that second category on I end up feeling like I have no hold on what's going on.