Accommodations
Assistive Technology
Classroom Aids
Testing Information
Characteristics of LD |
Testing Information
- A learning disability may affect the way a student should be evaluated. If so, special arrangements may be necessary.
- Allow the student to take tests in a separate, quiet room with a proctor. Students with learning disabilities may be sensitive to distractions.
- Grant time extensions on exams and written assignments when there are significant demands for reading and writing skills.
- Permit the use of assistive tools such as calculators, spell checkers or other materials that will assist the students.
- Allow students to use a reader, word processor, or tape recorder.
- Consider alternate test designs. For example, some students with learning disabilities may find essay formats difficult. A student with visual perceptual problems may have trouble with tests requiring them to visually match different items.
- Consider alternate or supplementary assignments to evaluate a student's mastery of the course material. Taped interviews, slide presentations, photographic essays or hand-made models may lead to more accurate measures of a student's knowledge.
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