Testing accommodations play a critical role in ensuring equity and validity in the assessment of students with learning disabilities. These adjustments—ranging from extended time and alternative test ...

To coincide with the ‘teachers’ theme of my most recent newsletter I thought it apropos to write a post regarding accommodations for students with mental health issues in a post-secondary setting.

Under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), in the United States you have the right to reasonable accommodations or modifications to a job, including working conditions and hiring ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. It’s time to rethink disability accommodations in higher education. While essential for ensuring ...

Student Disability Services coordinates service and accommodations for students with physical, psychiatric, medical, neurological, autism spectrum disorders, AD(H)D and learning disabilities. To ...

Writing in The New York Times in 2002, Sid Wolinsky, a lawyer and cofounder of Disability Rights Advocates, said that “standardized tests test students' disabilities, not their abilities.” Twenty ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The number of students with disabilities has grown 10 percentage points since 2004 to 21 percent of ...

This page offers information for students who identify as neurodivergent, who have disabilities that impact their academic work, and/or who are looking for ideas for managing their academic endeavors ...

This post was co-authored by Dr. Miranda Melcher. As explained in our previous blog, college disability services are very different from the ones high-schoolers (and their parents) previously ...

Right now hundreds of thousands of high school seniors are locking in their final decision about which college they plan to attend this fall. On top of the usual considerations when searching for a ...