Here are the numbers for registrations with the Disability Liason Access Unit for support under ‘reasonable adjustments’ legistation by year; estimates based on ABS statistics for people who are neurodiverse suggests Fed has anywhere between 800-1000 ND students and staff. As you can see the numbers are held up by things like the fact that registration with the DLAU requires a diagnosis, which typically costs a few thousand bucks in the middle of rolling cost-of-living and housing affordability crises.
As anyone who has worked in student retention at Fed can tell you, they bleed enrolments like a stuck pig. Given their habit of letting management technocrats with MBAs dictate teaching and learning practices to staff with academic qualifications, Dip Eds and lived experience of neurodiversity, this might not seem so surprising. The DLAU likes to claim that they have neurodiversity inclusion covered under the ‘reasonable adjustments’ status quo, but as their own registration statistics reveal, they really don’t.
I guess you don’t want to share these kinds of stats with project team members before you fuck them over. Something to remember for next time maybe.