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OP - Do you work with a Vision Therapist through your public schools to be sure your daughter is getting the right supports as mentioned in the classroom and expecially for testing?  If Fairfax county is saying they do not have such services, then have you also contacted the Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Virginia to see if they could send a consultant to evaluate your daughter and what interventions, especially in testing, might work best for her.

It sounds as if she is in the general education setting, but do you know how she is doing in terms of  the work she is covering with her classmates.  In other words, does she know the material or does she have a teacher(s) just sort of moving her along.  If you feel she does not know it, then I would go for retention to give her another year to master not only material, but also testing with perhaps the new accommodations.  I think she would need to use them all the time to become comfortable with them at SOL time.

The other thing you might get some information on is alternate testing for students with disabilities in Virginia.  I believe I have read there may be other ways to demonstrate one's knowledge of material, but just not sure.  Again the DBVI ought to be dealing with others with vision limitations and similar issues so they are probably at the state level your best resource  to even know what is out there.

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