{"id":6533,"date":"2012-03-26T12:38:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T16:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=6533"},"modified":"2012-03-26T12:38:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T16:38:39","slug":"some-students-dont-receive-needed-test-accommodations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/some-students-dont-receive-needed-test-accommodations\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Students Don&#8217;t Receive Needed Test Accommodations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Some%20Students%20Don%27t%20Receive%20Needed%20Test%20Accommodations\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 3px 5px; border: 1px solid black; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/img\/writing.teen2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"164\" \/>Disability Scoop reports that &#8220;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/590\/587367.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">report<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Americans with Disabilities Act requires test companies to provide accommodations like extra time or different formats, the Government Accountability Office found that many students with disabilities face significant barriers.<\/p>\n<p>Students say test companies ask for too much documentation to prove their special needs. Many students were frustrated because the test companies refused to provide the accommodations that they received at school.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For their part, testing companies told GAO investigators that they struggle to ensure that tests remain fair for all students while providing appropriate accommodations for those with legitimate needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About 2 percent of test takers received accommodations based on diagnoses ranging from autism to learning disabilities, GAO found. A much larger proportion of Americans \u2014 at least 12 percent \u2014 have disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is responsible for enforcing ADA compliance in testing situations. DOJ considers individual complaints, an approach that the GAO report described as &#8220;inadequate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout a systematic approach to reviewing complaints that it receives, Justice cannot assure that all complaints are consistently considered and that it is effectively targeting its limited resources to the highest priority enforcement activities,\u201d the report indicated.<\/p>\n<p>The GAO report was requested by U.S. Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., and U.S. Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif. After the report was \u00a0released in December, the Congressmen have called on Attorney General Eric Holder to take action.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The current system of applying for and obtaining testing accommodations \u2014 and seemingly haphazard enforcement \u2014 are barriers to students with disabilities,\u201d wrote Miller and Stark in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stark.house.gov\/images\/stories\/112\/press\/letterholdergaodisabilities12.19.11.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">letter<\/span><\/a> to Holder. &#8220;These barriers cause unnecessary delays to their careers and impose additional financial burdens on students who have already struggled and overcome challenges to reach this point.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabilityscoop.com\/2012\/01\/03\/college-exams-ada\/14688\/\">Disability Scoop<\/a>\u00a0who posted this article as \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabilityscoop.com\/2012\/01\/03\/college-exams-ada\/14688\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">College Entrance Exams Run Afoul Of ADA Requirements, Report Finds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabilityscoop.com\/2012\/01\/03\/college-exams-ada\/14688\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">http:\/\/www.disabilityscoop.com\/2012\/01\/03\/college-exams-ada\/14688\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disability Scoop reports that &#8220;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 <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/some-students-dont-receive-needed-test-accommodations\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,230,1363,1367],"tags":[878,1312,1306,1328,877,1297,876],"class_list":["post-6533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accommodations-modifications","category-college-continuing-education","category-discrimination-section-504-adaa","category-assessments-tests","tag-act","tag-ada","tag-discrimination","tag-education-policy","tag-sat","tag-section-504","tag-testing-accommodations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6533"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6897,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions\/6897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}