As someone who teaches sessionally at university, is involved with therapy dogs, and does work and research in the area of disability, I have a number of concerns with Wente's thinking. 

Accommodations at university do not reduce expectations.  Accommodations modify work so that students are able to work by harnessing their strengths. What accommodations teach us, all of us, is that if we drop the expectations  of students to fit into some narrow definition of “normal” then a whole lot of students can do a whole lot of stuff we didn’t think they could do.  These students go out in the world and do even more amazing stuff, not in spite of engaging the world differently but because they engage the world differently. By limiting their learning we limit their ability to impact the world.

I responded to Wente's article in my blog post this morning.

https://extremecaregiving.com/2017/09/19/accommodation-is-not-coddling/?fb_action_ids=10159311073710247&fb_action_types=news.publish