College ADHD paperwork

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You almost always need a report, not just a diagnostic code. A lot of people try to game the system with ADHD so they are usually careful about documentation. For our daughter with ADHD we were required to submit updated testing so we chose a provider from a list on the office of student disability website. Since we only needed verification of ADHD, the testing was fairly inexpensive (under $1000). Sometimes a school will make an exception if a physician attests to the diagnosis but the updated testing will benefit your student.

This is said from a position of great privilege. Many of us do not have $1000 to spend on unnecessary testing. My DC has been diagnosed with ADHD since age 8 and has been on medication for 6 years. There really would no or very little benefit to testing, particularly since he has been through full testing at age 8, 11 and 14.

There's a big difference between testing at 14 and testing at 7 (the OP said that her child hadn't been evaluated in 10 years). A lot can change in a student's need for accommodations between 2nd grade and college!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The above is incorrect. I have 2 kids at 2 different colleges (one private and one public), both submitted their HS 504s and both were given accomodations at their respective universities

Experiences vary; that doesn’t make the information up thread incorrect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You almost always need a report, not just a diagnostic code. A lot of people try to game the system with ADHD so they are usually careful about documentation. For our daughter with ADHD we were required to submit updated testing so we chose a provider from a list on the office of student disability website. Since we only needed verification of ADHD, the testing was fairly inexpensive (under $1000). Sometimes a school will make an exception if a physician attests to the diagnosis but the updated testing will benefit your student.

This is said from a position of great privilege. Many of us do not have $1000 to spend on unnecessary testing. My DC has been diagnosed with ADHD since age 8 and has been on medication for 6 years. There really would no or very little benefit to testing, particularly since he has been through full testing at age 8, 11 and 14.

I’m the PP you’re responding to and I have to agree that it is a privilege to be able to pay $1000. We have little extra money due to college expenses and my younger child is actually waiting on testing because we just can’t afford it right now. Fortunately the HS has been accommodating without it. I said it was “fairly inexpensive” because I was comparing it to the prices we’ve been charged and quoted elsewhere in the past and currently for my son who is waiting. We didn’t feel we had any choice but to pay for my daughters testing because the university provided a very clear checklist of required documents including that report. I wish the schools would offer free testing because I think it’s unfair for those who can’t pay. But I do not think testing is a waste. College has different demands from HS and the evaluator offered some very good recommendations that others hadn’t included and she couldn’t have foreseen needing in college.

[Anonymous]

We needed a report done with adult versions of tests, not pediatric, while in HS.

[Anonymous]

Every college is going to be different. Before spending lots of money, check directly with the student disability office at the college your child will be attending. My son's college accepted testing from elementary school but more importantly they wanted to see his 504 plan that he had since elementary school (of course it was updated every year). Saved us so much money making that phone call.

[Anonymous]

We just had some old testing and an updated doctor note. Got her extra time on SATs too.