Author: Amanjit Kaur Ahuja, Aparna Raghavan, Diya Ahuja et al. Disability legislation in India and other University Grants Commission guidelines stipulate clear directives on addressing the needs of students with physical and learning disabilities. However, a discourse on how to provide academic and other forms of accommodations to students with mental illness is lacking despite it being recognized as a disability under the law.
Our paper recommends a policy directive for implementing mental health accommodations in higher education institutions. We draw on our experience at Krea University where the Office of Inclusive Learning Support has instituted a robust, acceptable, multi-component, responsive mental health accommodations system in collaboration with SCARF, a reputed Mental Health Institution, over the last 5 years. The proposed policy framework will equip higher education…