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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]it's not about services. who cares if kids get services who need them? 
it's about a complete redefinition of what and is not 'typical' and what must be 'accommodated'.
[b]If half your class needs to be accommodated then maybe your school is wrong[/b]. [/quote]

I kind of agree with you but this is really only true if half the class needs the SAME accommodation. If some need extra time and others need breaks and others need seating close to the teacher and others need seating somewhere else then these diagnoses/evals are actually helping folks to identify kids' individual needs and the real problem is [b]some kids get their needs identified much later than others due to lack of access to services.[/b][/quote]

This is key. Instead of spending millions on standardized testing in elementary schools, we should be giving neuropsych evaluations to all kids in public schools. Early intervention will allow those kids to perform better when they hit middle school. Start the academic standardized testing after you identify and support learning differences for all.[/quote]

I don’t know. It just makes the kid look more functional than they are. No one will accommodate them in the work force. And everyone will want to hire the kid who didn’t need accommodations. Having testing without accommodations probably resulted in more accurate results. 
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Reasonable accomodations are the law.  We will see more flexibility in the workforce as diagnoses increase, not fewer.[/quote]

Disability accommodation in the workforce does not include allowing someone twice as much time to complete tasks though. Employers are allowed to "discriminate" against candidates who does not meet fundamental job requirements. This means that a candidate in a wheelchair cannot sue the fire department for making the ability to walk without assistance a fundamental job requirement.  A law firm will never be required to hire a lawyer who takes twice as long to write a memo or who expects extra time from a judge to respond to a filing. A bank is not required to accommodate dyscalculia if it keeps someone from performing the basic aspects of their job.  And so on.

So yes people can request reasonable accommodations for things like ADHD from employers but this will be stuff like permitting an employee to use headphones in the office to block out distractions or ensure they have access to their meds while working. It does not include changing the basic requirements of a job. [/quote]

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