possible learning disability in addition to ADHD

Mitdu
Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:42:38 +0000

Freshman 1990–

If you believe you need 100% extended time, ask the Disabilities Office what it would take to get that accommodation.

Unlike K-12, you don’t have to fit into any IEP category in college. You are covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Under ADA, colleges are required to look at the “functional impact” of your disability, rather than the diagnostic label.

For example, colleges are not supposed to say that “only students with diagnosed learning disabilities can get 100% extended time. Students with ADHD can get only 50% extended time.”

Under ADA, the impact of your disability should determine how much extended time (or other accommodation) you need. Colleges are supposed to determine accoms on a “case by case” basis. So two students with the same diagnosis may get very different accoms, based on the “impact” of their disabilities.