College Accommodations Question

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In what are accommodations written? Do you get your formal accommodations first, then choose classes? Or do you have to choose classes before accommodations are written?

I ask because my daughter needed new accommodations after an updated evaluation. We asked for them almost a month in advance. Now, three weeks into class, she is being told she can't get an official letter until she has chosen all her classes. (She has to drop a class and replace it with something that starts in the second part of the semester.)

This seems backwards to me.

For me, I picked the classes and then had to get the accommodations approved by the instructor.

First you need to make sure you have something in writing from a doctor saying your kid is on the autism spectrum and send that to the disability office.

Then your kid needs to register for the particular classes.

Then the disability office at the school will ask you or your kid what accommodations your kid needs and you'll specify that.

Then the disability office will print out X number of letters for the same number of classes that your kid is taking.

Finally, your kid will need to personally take a letter to the professor in each class. (S)he should do this before the class starts if (s)he doesn't want anyone else to know about the accommodations.