Faculty Support Ideas :

Bearing in mind what was said about strengths and generalizations, I think the one thing faculty members can do to help students with disabilities is to see these people as students first, and then see their disability. Many of us without disabilities tend to make the psuedo-independent, and often liberal, mistake of saying "I don't see these students as having disabilities, I see them like everyone else."
This is wrong.

On the other hand, students with disabilities usually do not want to be treated like "poster children." They want their disability to receive no more attention than any other student's ability. Every student wants a comfortable seat in class. I doubt any student would enjoy the instructor hovering over him or her and checking to see that the seat is comfortable. Yet many faculty feel like they are in a bind; they want to make special accommodations according to the student's disability but they don't want to call attention to the student.

The best bet is to talk with the student personally and lay out a game plan. Get it all out in the open, make adjustments, and then let the student be a student.

Finally, faculty and staff have to evaluate their own potential anxieties and/or biases about people with disabilities. We all carry some guilt and discomfort when we see someone "different" from us. Denying that you have this discomfort will not help the student or you.