Inclusion in Fieldwork: Academic Fieldwork Coordinators' Perspectives on Accommodating Disabled Occupational Therapy Students.

Only the coordinators were asked. Disabled students, fieldwork educators and other faculty were not, so this is one side of the picture. The sample is small and all Canadian: 15 survey responses and 5 interviews, which the authors themselves describe as small and geographically bound. None of the participants identified as living with a disability, and the authors note that memory and their own biases about disability may have shaped what they reported. Some coordinators may have held back about their actual practices because they feared their employer's reaction. The survey was written for this study and only checked for face validity by three coordinators, so the authors accept it may have missed important topics.

The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship or publication of this article. They state that all of the authors have lived experience with disability and other marginalized identities, and that two of them are occupational therapists.

Most of the students in this study did end up with accommodations, but do not read that as evidence that accommodations work. The coordinators were giving their own impressions, no student outcomes were measured, and the authors found no formal tool anywhere to check whether an accommodation actually helped.