<p>The ETS recently denied an application for special accomodations for our nephew. He is a classified student who has been studying under an IEP since the fifth grade. The ETS requested comparative scores for timed and untimed standardized tests for him, but since he has been taking tests with accomodations since the fifth grade this is impossible. His only accomodation is extra time.</p>
<p>We are unsure what to do. There are attorneys who will offer to sue the ETS for us but that will take years and he is a high school senior starting his last year now and will miss all testing dates. His applications to colleges will be negatively impacted by the ETS decision - yet he is an all A student who would otherwise be very eligible for admission to almost any school.</p>
<p>Does his school have any ideas or desire to help? Perhaps they could proctor a retake of the PSAT to provide the comparison. It's pretty late to be trying to sort this out, so if nothing else works then that could provide fodder for an essay.</p>
<p>I hope it works out; it's a good heads up for me as I head into my Freshman's 504 meeting. I won't assume that accomodations at school will be honored by external organizations.</p>
<p>ETS sucks when it comes to awarding accommodations. </p>
<p>However, your nephew can go to an outside educational psychologist and get standardized testing done timed and untimed, which can then be presented to the ETS. The boy's parents should call the disabilities section of ETS and immediately demand to talk to a supervisor (the people who answer the phone know nothing). They should ask the supervisor exactly what standardized tests the boy needs, timed and untimed, in order to demonstrate his disability. Then they should get the psychologist to administer those tests.</p>
<p>And this thread really belongs in the learning disabilities section, not this section.</p>
<p>Maybe he could take the ACT. I don't know what their procedure is for accommodations, but it might be easier to get him extra time. I've heard that it's not that difficult to get time and a half with a psychologist's LD diagnosis. Good luck.</p>