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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are common 504 accommodations in high school? We had a 504 in elementary and then switched to private where like a previous poster he’s just given extra time as needed, more flexibility with turning things in, and it’s a very small environment, etc. He also can tell a teacher when he has spent more than an hour on a subject of homework and he’s done.

In a year he will go back to public high school and I’m trying to figure out what we will need in place. I think for sure preferential seating and more time for tests because he already had that in elementary school. He also got breaks in elementary school—what does that look like in high school? Do they offer accommodations for homework or not? [/quote]

HS teacher here and preferential seating is common, but that looks different for every student and every classroom.  Breaks can be anything from a a trip to the bathroom or just not doing work and putting the assignment down for 5 min. Unfortunately this is one of the most abused accommodations of my students to wander the halls and skip and a “break” turns into them being gone for 20 min.   We often have to meet again and say they can’t leave the room, unless it’s to actually use the bathroom.

As for telling the teacher times up after an hour, no, that’s not done in HS. Homework isn’t assigned by time anymore.  You need to get an assignment done.  It’s either studying to learn for a test, the lab write up, math problems, paper, etc.

It’s not as easy as asking for reduced assignments either.  You can’t change the 5 page paper into a 3 page paper or the 10 math problems into 5.  Your kid will be missing content.  [/quote]

Parent of a kid with ADHD.  Extra time for tests means extra time for all assignments as well, because if you process slowly or have to spend time re-directing your attention and re-checking your work for impulsivity errors on tests, you also need that on all assignments - in class and at home. That is a basic principle of pedagogy, although it may seem inconvenient for the teacher. This means that homework that is due in 24 hours, can be due in 36 hours for kids with an "extra time on assignments" accommodation. In practice, that also leads to an accommodation that means a student can "re-schedule deadlines",  because if you are spending 150% time on everything then you won't be able to complete things on the same deadlines as other students.  Some ADHD kids have caps on the amount of testing in one day - "no more than 2 hours of testing in one day."  Other accommodations that can be very helpful to ADHD students are: copy of class notes, graphic organizers for writing, break assignment into chunks, and memory aides (like allowing a formula sheet for tests for kids with weak working memory).

I am sure that some posters will flame some of these accommodations as leading to the downfall of the student in the real world, but our kid had all of these accommodations, which enabled him to take appropriately challenging material in high school, do reasonably well, and go to a good (but not Ivy) college where he did well and became gainfully employed.

In college, the accommodations are sometimes better than in HS.  Many of DCs classes were video recorded and all students (not just disabled students) had access to the recordings.  DC actually preferred watching the videos because he could pause and rewind.  Colleges are doing this to be ADA compliant and are following a principle of teaching called "universal design for access" - where all materials must be accessible to different kinds of learners.  In college, students have a greater ability to select classes that are commensurate with their strengths. They spend less time in a class seat on a weekly basis and have more freedom about how to study and get assignments done. [/quote]

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