<p>I've already taken the ACT, but I will be taking it once again on June 13. How do I go about to notify ACT of my diagnosis?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Someone with severe depression should notify ACT, as well as someone who smokes weed. What about crack babies? paraplegic kids? Jews?</p>
<p>I’m going to notify the College Board that I’m left handed and that I should get a few hundred more points since I have a disability.</p>
<p>Wth are you talking about, Structur3?</p>
<p>That’s not even funny. Being lefthanded or paraplegic or Jewish doesn’t impair test taking, whereas ADD does. I understand you were being sarcastic, but it doesn’t even make sense.</p>
<p>But I don’t really know how to answer your question, Cast.</p>
<p>Why not call the company that makes the test?</p>
<p>You are probably too late for the June ACT quite frankly, but check with your guidance office or go to the ACT website where they have all the information regarding accomodations and the process for requesting accomodations. If you have a long standing IEP and you have been receiving extended time throughout your school career and your IEP is well documented by qualified professionals you will have a better chance of getting your request honored. If you have ADD, but are currently not receiving accomodations of any kind in your usual school environment and are simply “medicated”, it will be more difficult to receive accomodations and you need to find out how to substantiate and document.</p>
<p>Cast, I cannot see the test makers having sympathy for you. However,if you notify the colleges you apply to, they might be more sympathetic.</p>
<p>The thing is, I actually am diagnosed with ADD since the 3rd grade. I take medication for it every single day. </p>
<p>I just found out that you can get accomodations for taking the ACT, which is why I’m asking how exactly I can go about by requesting for accomodations.</p>
<p>If you have a learning disability you can get extended time
I’d suggest talking to your college counselor. May be too late by now because sometimes you have to take a test that proves that you’d to better with more time and stuff. i have friends who do this for the APs.</p>
<p>I thought it was on your registration card or something?
Atleast my friend said that he had a certain sheet for it…like you just cant tell someone “I have ADD, can I have more time?”</p>
<p>I don’t know what I was thinking when I created this topic. The best way is just to have my doctor provide my ADD information and send to ACT.</p>
<p>Thanks anyways, guys.</p>
<p>^Not likely to be that simple I’m afraid, especially at short notice.The key seems to be whether your school district can document you have needed and/or benefited from accommodations.</p>
<p>Diagnosed with ADD since I was … 5? Been on both Ritalin, currently on Adderal. You need to meet with counselor to receive accommodations. </p>
<p>I have debated whether or not to get them, but I’m going against it. I just load up on adderal the morning of and wish myself luck. This extra time would be great for moving an 8 essay to a 10 or a 12, or 760-800. But I’ve decided against it.</p>
<p>You won’t get breaks for ADD in real life, you won’t get special treatment. Take your medication and deal with it. (unless your case is truly as severe as you depict).</p>
<p>“unless your case is truly as severe as you depict”</p>
<p>Where’s that part?</p>
<p>It’s not a part, it’s the entire thread.</p>
<p>After all, you wouldn’t have made it otherwise.</p>
<p>So… I understand offering a student with dyslexia or a similar disease extended time… they need to rearrange the words in their own head, and that is time consuming.</p>
<p>Anyone else think that if they offer an extended test time to a student with ADD… that’s just highly illogical and doesn’t help make the test more fair for that individual?</p>
<p>They must have different accommodations than these… that is so beyond cruel if that’s what they do.</p>
<p>I think ADD is over diagnosed and many parents are trying to get their kids extra time when they do not need it.</p>
<p>Granted, it is certainly legitimate in some situations. </p>
<p>Nevertheless, as somebody else already hinted, you are not going to get this extra time in college, grad school, and even life.</p>
<p>It is a scarlet letter at my school. People who get amazing scores, yet have extra time, get made fun of.</p>
<p>Take the honorable route.</p>