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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC had a reader and a scribe accommodation form the college board, it comes with 50% more time.  This is because it takes longer to take a test with a reader and a scribe.  There is a delay from when one person reads a questions and when the next person hears it.  There is also a delay when the test taker tells the scribe the answer and the scribe bubbles it in, or in the case of the essay - when the scribe writes/types it out.

For those who only have 50% extra time, they are in a room with everyone less with that accommodation and they have to sit tight for the full time for each section just like in the classrooms where they have 100% of the time.  That makes for a very long day.

For those of you proposing that everyone receives the extra 50%, would your DC’s be able to sit tight for that extra time, even if they did not need it in the first place?  [/quote]

Yes as they will be able to check their answers or do that extra question since they will have more time[/quote]

Then the impact of extra time would be minimal in this case.  So why advocate for it?  A "normal" kid, checking answers doesn't yield much vs. a kid with ADHD who consistently makes careless errors and "needs" the extra time to check answers.  I like the analogy of the glasses.  If you give a kid with perfect eyesight glasses, they will end up with the same result as they would without the glasses.[/quote]

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