<p>Can anyone advise on the process of getting accommodations for the ACT - in particular keyboarding for the writing section? DS (junior) has that accommodation for the SAT and AP tests. I won't go into all the details, but he has a lifelong, documented medical history such that he keyboards all written assignments in his day-to-day classroom work. He does not get extended time. If you're vehemently anti-accommodation, please refrain from commenting - trust me, he deserves the accommodation. He's already worrying about what to do with the question on the SAT form where he has to write a paragraph in cursive in a small space, under time constraints, vowing that he's not cheating. </p>
<p>He's taking the SAT next month; the ACT w/o writing in December. Should his ACT > SAT, his GC is recommending we start working on accommodations for an ACT re-take, if there are schools on his application list that will not take his SAT writing results in lieu of the ACT writing (although I can't imagine he'll have that much of sense of his college list yet!).</p>
<p>His documentation for the College Board is now 6 years old (he originally needed it for the 7th grade CTY SAT exam, but then it just follows you), and it required us to get a full neuropsychologist workup. Keyboarding is, rightly, a very difficult accommodation to get and we were turned down the first time we applied - it took us more than 6 months to work it through the system, not counting the time to wait for the neuropsych workup. Not something I want to go through again unless absolutely needed.</p>