Can a disability (epilepsy) be an advantage?

GloriaVaughn
Sun, 10 Dec 2017 04:45:42 +0000

My child also has a disability. She applied to and was excepted at all the schools without their knowledge of her disability because she wanted to get in or be denied on her own accord not on a disability. Once she accepted the school of her choice she was admitted into their honors program on her own accord. She chose her dorm because it would accommodate her disabilities and was excepted in that dorm. No one at the school knew of her disabilities until the day she registered for classes when I spoke to the director of their disabilities dept. and then emailed her file. My daughter wanted minimal intervention from the school since she wanted to do things on her own. She graduated with honors, was in the highest level of the honors college and was a student leader on campus. Only once did she have to play the disabilities card and that had to deal with housing. Housing keep insisting that she was to live on another side of campus with a lot of walking and busy street crossing. One call to the head of disabilities and her response was no, I’ll take care of it and she did. Even now my daughter does not reveal her disabilities unless she is offered the job or a contract. If someone cannot get into college without playing the disability card, then perhaps they are not ready for college.