<p>Apparently shopping for the right so-called "psychoeducational evaluation" is happening on an increasing basis as part of an effort to game the system and if ETS doesn't shut these abuses down, and severely constrict LD time accomodated students to those with AUTHENTIC disabilities (complete with long histories for the claimant) - the SAT test will soon lose much of its integrity. </p>
<p>Amazingly per the very guidelines ETS is posting (as I've cited in earlier posts) ETS is actually encouraging recent "learning disabled" evidence - which only makes the problem worse as it obviously tilts the system toward suddenly discovering new "learning disabilities"</p>
<p>There really is no end to how many categories of "learning disabilities" are yet to be invented. Consider this comment from 2001 in reference to "learning disabilties" in general: "The IDEA (Disabilities Education Act) has evolved in ways that are dizzying yet to all-too predictable when education policy is dictated from Washington. But the program has evolved in ways that are dizzying yet all-too predictable when education policy is dictated from Washington. Participation in the program was capped at 12 percent of American students. Demand has increased to meet supply: While 8.3 percent of students were classified with special needs in 1976, today that figure is guess what?about 12 percent. The overall number of special-needs students has increased by 65 percent in 25 years, attributable to an expansion of the concept of "learning disabilities" that has transformed the IDEA, in the words of G. Reid Lyon of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, into a "sociological sponge to wipe up the ills of general education." (Education Week, Sept 2001)</p>