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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]My kid with ADHD inattentive, and both physical and mental health problems took the ACT with double time over multiple days.  He did it at his public school over the summer and went in every day for a week and worked 1:1 with a teacher proctoring.  I think he could have taken 2 weeks, but he didn’t need it.  There were multiple kids taking it, and the proctor just set it up so each came in at a different time.  I don’t know if any kids shared, my kid had accommodations that necessitated 1:1.

We looked into SAT but [b]SAT only offers 2 day testing[/b], and we felt the multi day was better.[/quote]

Just want to say - the bold is illegal.  Who said “they only offer 2 day testing” - the school or the College Board?   CB is obliged, just like the school is, to make and independent evaluation of the student’s disability and needs.  They can develop a menu of accommodations and offer them and if it fits a students needs, then fine.  But, if it doesn’t, then CB is legally obliged to offer a reasonable accommodation that is individualized.  They also can’t decline to do so because “it’s expensive”, “it wouldn’t be fair to other kids”, “we don’t have a proctor for that” etc.  The fact that ACT manages to do more than 2 day testing means SAT can too.

Please write a letter to the head of CB and point out they are not comiant with federal disability law.  These are major money making companies who must and can afford to provide access for the disabled and have a history of not doing so until sued.

While it is true that schools accept the ACT now and you can just choose to use the competitor’s product, there can be advantages to the SAT timeline and the way SAT reports scores, just like there are similar advantages for ACT. [/quote]

Can you provide a link that backs that up?

The school system is covered by FAPE.  They are obligated to do whatever they need to do to provide Free and Appropriate Education.

College Board is not under IDEA.  They are under ADA which has a much lower bar.  It's quite likely that it's already been decided that the expense of developing a multiday testing protocol is an unfair burden.

Having said that, even if it's true that the CB can be forced to allow multiday testing for specific kids where a case can be made, I don't think I could have made that case.  My kid required double time and had a history of taking two exams on one day at school, which with double time comes to more than 3 hours of testing.  So, it would have been hard for me to make the case that he couldn't take the 6 hour test over 2 days.   However, because the ACT automatically offers multiday testing to students who have double time, he received it. [/quote]

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