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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - I think a lot of parents on the board interpreted the question as "Is it easy to get appropriate services for a kid with genuine needs?"

We all know the answer to that is probably no.

The more salient question, for this particular discussion, is "Is it easy to get testing accommodations only for a fake need, if you've got the money laying around?"  The secondary question is "Will testing accommodations help a typically developing pupil outperform their peers?"

I genuinely don't know the answer to that.  [/quote]

If every kid were tested most would come out with areas of strengths and weaknesses, which a psychologist can then use to craft a reason a kid needs accommodations. So I don't think it is fake testing, there just isn't a need if a child really isn't struggling at school. I think the parents doing this "fake testing" are not being truthful when the psychologist asks if their child is struggling at school or to complete homework in a timely manner. The answer to the second question is YES, extra time benefits kids with and without disabilities in the SAT. It helps medium to higher performing students and really doesn't have much of an effect on lower performing students. Here is a study ETS published
http://www.ets.org/Media/Research/pdf/RR-05-20.pdf[/quote]

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