accommodāre

verb

accommodated; accommodating:
to provide with something desired, needed, or suited
to make room for
to bring into agreement or concord : reconcile
to give consideration to : to allow for
to make fit, suitable, or congruous
to adapt oneself
to bring one thing into correspondence with another.

The whole of technology is essentially accommodation. Disability is a social framing.

I’ve spent years trying to figure out the best practices for accommodating the specific support needs that typically overlap ADHD and PDA. I studied school models around the world and educational practices late into the night, trying to determine what worked and what didn’t. Throughout this process, I came to recognize a central, underlying human need being overlooked in attempts to educate kids with disabilities: inclusion.

Schools that separate kids with high support needs require far more staff to accommodate students than a more typical school environment, and the school, which is essentially a microcosm of larger society begins to evolve away from its original intention: preparing children for the realities of the adult world. We are always learning to work with others. We are not grouped by our neurotypes in adulthood.