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Testing Accommodations for Post Secondary Education Provided Through Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Reasonable testing accommodations are provided to allow individuals with
documented disabilities an opportunity to demonstrate their skills and knowledge.
The ADA mandates that test accommodations be individualized. This means that no
single type of test accommodation may be adequate or appropriate for all individuals
with any given type of disability.
Accommodations customarily used are available if documented by a qualified
professional and approved in accordance with program policies and procedures.
Examples of accommodations that may be approved include:
- Computer Based Testing
- Extended testing time
- Additional breaks
- Selectable background and foreground colors
- Test reader
- Sign language interpreter (for check-in process only)
- Formatting, tools and accessories if appropriate
- Paper and Pencil testing
- Extended testing time
- Additional breaks
- Writer to record answers
- Reader to dictate test answers
- Sign language interpreter (for spoken directions only)
- Other aids customarily used
- Alternate Test Formats
- Braille
- Enlarged print (14 pt.)
- Large print (greater than 14 pt.)
- Large print answer sheet
- Audio cassette with large-print figure supplement
- Audio cassette with Braille figure supplement
