DSP serves students with disabilities. Short-term illnesses such as colds and flu, COVID, or mono are not in themselves disabilities.
Additionally, accommodations are not retroactive, and any approved accommodations would be valid from the issuance of a student’s Letter of Accommodation forward.
If a student has experienced a short-term illness that has resulted in a disability (such as long COVID), DSP is an appropriate office to determine any needed accommodations. However, if the short-term illness simply takes the student a couple of days or weeks to recover from, instructors are encouraged by the campus to make appropriate adjustments.
The Center for Teaching and Learning has A Guide for Handling Student Absences Due to Minor Illnesses, and the EVCP’s office provides Illness Accommodations Instructor Guidance as part of the Accommodations Guidance for Instructors resource page.