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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]this article pisses me off.   My DD gets extra time because of   autism and ADHD.  She would gladly give up the extra time to be neurotypical.[/quote]

You should be pissed off at the people who are securing diagnoses their kids don’t qualify for, and accommodations they probably don’t need. [/quote]

No.  Angry at them for gaming the system.  Angry at the other for being so stupid.[/quote]

I am the pissed PP, the responding PP is not me.

I am pissed because the tone of the article is that people are getting these diagnoses to get accommodations.  With DD, the diagnosis was secondary to depression.  We found, in the neurospych testing, that there were performance drop-offs with time, the best way to put it is, when she get fatigued, she loses her working memory.  The purpose of the neurosych testing was to try to figure out why her therapy (CBT) was just not working.

What the extra time allows her is to clear her head and refocus.

Some may say that is gaming the system; the extra time may or may not have helped her SAT's;  she took the PSATs without extra time, and then the SATs with the time and the score did improve, from 1210 to 1400.
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Some people are getting these diagnoses to get a perceived edge on standardized testing. Some students who are diagnosed do have a disability. Some students who have disabilities are never tested because their schools don't do it or their parents don't realize they should or they would like to and can't afford it.

This can all be true at the same time.

But the Dept of Ed data is clear; wealthier census tracks have far a higher percentages of students with 504s than non-wealthy communities. Are there more disabled kids living in the suburbs? Or just more families who can afford a diagnosis?

The conclusion to me is that there are probably tons of students who aren't being diagnosed and don't get services and supports they need to learn.
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It’s not a “perceived” edge, its a real and tremendous advantage.[/quote]

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