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No, that's the inherent job of an educator, to assess the student's situation which includes physical, mental, and emotional support.

If you want to teach someone anything while yelling at them, or making them uncomfortable because the room is too hot, or by making them do meaningless puzzles that don't relate to the material it deeply compromises your goal of teaching them.




An interesting anecdote, I was sent to months of psychological and physiological evaluation as a child as some adults knew something was "wrong" or more accurately things didn't seem to make sense.

Those things finally made sense to me when I did a short screener for autistic masking and found myself in the 99th percentile.




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