Juggling full time higher education with a disability/chronic illness is a struggle, in and of itself. And in the experience I've had, as much as individuals try to help to make it possible for you to continue to study, the institutions themselves make it really bloody hard. Harder than it should be, really. I had naively thought that the pandemic and moving everything online would help make things more accessible. If anything, it has somehow made it worse, as institutions now seemed to really dig their feet at the idea of providing online access instead of face-to-face.

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We made the deans list last semester! 🎉

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"Accommodating University Students with ME/CFS" (2020)

I liked this. Has lots of ideas (though only some would likely be instigated in any one case).

Authors are from the US but many/most of the ideas would translate elsewhere

Also useful for other chronic illnesses

https://www.meaction.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/University_Accommodations_103020.pdf

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