AuDHD Flourishing 95 Kind Accommodations for Students & Teachers with Anna Shaver
Apr 19, 2025
Anna Shaver, educator and linguist who centers accessibility and psychological safety in college writing, describes her accommodation-focused pedagogy. She discusses redesigning classes, credit/no-credit grading, consent-based feedback, using Discord for community, open-book testing, and why kindness and choice transform student writing and participation.
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A Year Of Big Self-Discoveries
- Anna learned she was autistic, ADHD, and trans in the same year and found kindness transformative.
- That self-knowledge reshaped how she treats herself and her students.
Sleep Changed College Grades
- Anna's grades improved dramatically once she started sleeping enough after moving to campus.
- Sleep was the single change that turned her B's into straight A's.
Linguistics Reframes Grammar
- Linguistics training reframed grammar from policing to celebrating linguistic diversity.
- That shift supports teaching that honors students' language and identity.
