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On February 20, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights released “new resources” for students and their parents concerning asthma, diabetes, food allergies, and GERD ( https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-educations-office-civil-rights-releases-new-resources-students-disabilities ) and whether these conditions are disabilities triggering a duty to accommodate. Although its four resources principally concern the treatment of students in the K–12 system, OCR includes postsecondary students as potentially affected. But on closer inspection, the four resources impose no new obligations on postsecondary institutions. Here's why.
Michael R. Masinter (Wed,) studied this question.