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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 7th grade child is supposed to be in a small testing group but for the last two days he has been in a PARCC testing group of more than 30 students. All of the students have small group testing accommodation and some of the kids are huge behavior problems. Who do I contact about accommodations not being honored?[/quote]

Can someone explain why the size of the testing group matters?      What is the difference between taking a test with 4 other kids in the room or with 30 other kids in the room?      [/quote]

If this kid's IEP says he needs a small group, that means his doctor thinks that's best for him. There's clearly a medical reason for it. [/quote]

OK but what could that medical reason be?[/quote]

Ask a doctor. I don't know because I'm not a medical professional. Why are you questioning it? [/quote]

Small group testing is usually an accommodation for students who are easily distracted or have extended time. It doesn't have to be a medical reason. My DD in college gets to take her tests in a testing room in the student disabilities office where each student gets their own carrel to sit in. She says it helps her a lot because she has ADHD and gets distracted taking tests in large lecture halls plus if a student gets extended time they need to be in a separate room during testing. [/quote]

I don't mean to offend, but if your daughter has ADHD, then isn't her accommodation derived from a medical reason? [/quote]

Psychiatric disorders such as ADHD are actually physical differences in brain functioning, so are definitely medical. However we still have this separation of mental versus physical, which is a very damaging holdover from olden days when we didn't know how the brain worked. This leads to all sorts of taboos and contempt for psychiatric patients which really should have disappeared by now.

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