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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you may find this hard to believe but it's not as easy as you think to get accommodations on the ACT and SAT. I'm the PP whose daughter has abnormal eye tracking and low processing. She is in a special program at her high school that provides her with the support she needs to do well in college prep courses.

The program director told us to be prepared to be turned down for ACT/SAT accommodations despite her IEP and other documentation. She said the bar is very high, most get turned down - however, she will then file an appeal and provide additional documentation and we cross our fingers that is is accepted by ACT/SAT.

She felt our daughter has a good chance of getting accommodations on an appeal, but not to count on it for they routinely turn down kids that she feels really should get it. So, rest assured, they are not handing out extra hours like candy to anyone who asks or provides them with a minimum of documentation of a vague problem.[/quote]

This is true.[/quote]

+1.  My DD who has received accommodations at her high school for ADHD since freshman year was turned down for accommodations on the SAT.[/quote]

And rightly so.  Because they are seeing an increase of kids coming to the party late with diagnoses after middle school.  it is very suspicious when people suddenly have a new diagnosis of ADHD.  In most cases this is identified in elementary school.  I am sure those who are gaming the system are the ones who decide to get evaluated in high school for the first time.  Our DS gets accommodations on both SAT and ACT, but he has a strong history of accommodations since 2nd grade.
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We had an easy time getting accommodations, but we had a 7th grade diagnosis and medication, and psychoeducational testing with a 20 page report, and continuous use of accommodations, and annual teacher notes that he had needed and used accommodations, and 10th grade retesting. And he uses an EF coach. Their records went in. Psychiatrist records went in.  Plus, our kid had been diagnosed as ADHD by his pediatrician in 3rd grade, and an “informal” 504 in ES. We never applied and got the approval, but we had records of meeting with the ES twice a year, and being given small group testing for SOLs. We just didn’t pursue medication and a formal plan until we had to.  Which was MS, when he suddenly had 7 classes, instead of one teacher each year who the school had placed him with because they did well with 2e. And we had all his ES records.  And the pediatricians records. It was a half an inch of paperwork going back 7 years before we applied to the college board. That’s what it takes to get accommodations.  If you want your kid to get a higher score, it is much, much cheaper, easier and less time consuming to hire a 1:1 SAT tutor. Which we are not doing, because we have to pay for the EF coach.  If you do all this with your kid over a period of years, you have quite a long term grift going on that fools a couple dozen people.  Or, maybe, your kid has an issue that needs accommodations. [/quote]

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