Who would know????????

Yes, it might be self evident to some, but not to all despite all the training in the world.
Not everyone will admit that they struggle through their courses and if you are used to 'covering up' these conditions ( for reasons of self esteem or other )then you can be very crafty how you go about it.

If a student is doing poorly, there is no way really of covering that up.  Students may try to cover up (or may well not understand) the reasons they are struggling.  But they cannot cover up the struggling itself, and its manifestations.  As long as a teacher is appropriately monitoring the abilities and progress of the students, those who are struggling, and how they are struggling, will show up.  The exception would perhaps be if a student is cheating somehow, but that is relatively uncommon.

That's the case for school students, because they are constantly doing work, taking part in interactive classes, etc. 

The university environment and system, more often with lectures, a few tutorials and fewer but larger assignments, rather than ongoing interactive classes and work submitted, is different.  It is still possible to get to know students a bit, and to check on progress and ability through tutorial interaction and early, more minor assignments.  But it is not as interactive a process as schooling.

Nevertheless, university students are at university because they have managed to succeed at school or in their lives to a certain level.  They are mostly also there because they choose and want to be, not because they have to be.  They are also older than school students, and a bit wiser.  And they wish to succeed.

Students at university do have to take more responsibility for their own lives than school students.  This goes for all university students, not just those with disabilities or difficulties.  It is a principle of the university system and expectations. 

But if they have managed to get to university, they are more likely to understand this, and to try to do it.

I couldn't have said it better myself Ms C. 

SonomaEddie wrote:

Sorry if I seemed rude but my patience wears thin by people running scared of the falling sky because of some idiotic thing they hear or read on the internet.

Think the above comments were aimed at me Eddie...However I agree with your coment..(Think I replied with some thing like.."grow up"...)