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Need Your Help! Please Sign Petition to Legalize Dyslexia & Accommodations

04/02/13
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We need your help. Please join the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity and Wrightslaw by signing this Petition to Congress. The Petition asks Congress to require testing agencies to provide accommodations for dyslexic students so their high stakes tests assess their abilities, not their disabilities. More than 18,000 people have signed the Petition. We need another 6,809 supporters. Please join us. It’s time to right […]

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Some Students Don’t Receive Needed Test Accommodations

03/26/12
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Disability Scoop reports that “too little is being done to ensure that students with disabilities receive appropriate accommodations on the SAT, ACT and other standardized tests, according to a new government report. Although the Americans with Disabilities Act requires test companies to provide accommodations like extra time or different formats, the Government Accountability Office found […]

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