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[quote=Anonymous][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]

No. The better analogy is allowing someone to take a vision test with glasses! The ability to do work quickly and correctly is what standardized tests measure (in part). Allowing someone extra time to "fix careless errors" defeats the entire purpose. [/quote]

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