Special Accommodations
Test accommodations are given to students with physical or learning impairments. Mild to medium ADD/ADHD rarely qualifies a student for accommodations. Students with physical impairments may request appropriate accommodations, while students with learning impairments usually request extra time.
In order to determine eligibility based on learning impairment, your son/daughter would need to have formal evaluations done by a psychiatrist or psychologist that show two things: intellectual abilities and current level of achievement.
The evaluations must show that there is some kind of condition (like a reading disorder, significant ADD, or another learning disability) that is causing the gap between your child's ability and his/her achievement.
Once those evaluations are done, they are sent to the test agency along with a description of the testing accommodations he/she may have received here at school. ACT/SAT uses all this info to decide whether to give extra time. It takes four to five weeks after they receive the paperwork for a decision to be made.
Please contact Beth Abler for more information regarding this topic.
