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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is rampant at private schools - the wealthier the population, the higher the % of accommodations. I have friends whose kids got accommodations in 10th grade - got diagnosis, handed to school, school had to accommodated, the school filed w College Board. [/quote]

It is not uncommon for kids who are twice exceptional to not get diagnosed until the beginning of high school when the pace of the classwork really picks up, and lecture style classes are more common.

My kids have been in both private and public school -- far more diagnoses in public school because of superior support systems.[/quote]

My friend in private got it for her kid - audio processing.  Er..I can see it when in class, but u don’t listen to anything at an SAT or ACT test. But kid got double time for SAT and SAT subject tests. [/quote]

If you get it for an SAT subject test you get it on the SAT. If it is irrelevant to the test, then it doesn't matter. My kid got a keyboard accommodation from the SAT in the even he decided to do the SAT writing test, so it wasn't obviously used. But the same accommodations sheet covered his AP exams, where it was relevant and used.

There are music SAT2 tests with a listening component, as well as foreign language test with a listening / translating component. [/quote]

Kid wasn’t doing any SATs w listening component - just Math I, math 2, chemistry and physics [/quote]

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