FUTURE OF ACCOMMODATIONS

Future of Accommodations on Graduate/ Licensing Exams of Students

Future of Accommodations on Graduate/ Licensing Exams of Students

Introduction

The paper is related to accommodations on graduate/ licensing exams of students, which particularly focuses on future of these accommodations. The accommodations on graduate/ licensing exams program is intended to support student with the disabilities in order to provide accommodations to students who have physical disabilities, sensory or multiple disabilities enrolled in graduate/ licensing program. The goal of the program is to help offset the costs related to the acquisition of necessary personal instruments and supporting studies. To enroll in the accommodations on graduate/ licensing program to support student with disabilities students, it is important that the students must provide documentation relevant to their disabilities and follow the directions.

Discussion

It is observed that if a student is applying to admission for licensing or into graduate school, it is important for the student to do the following:

The application process should start early.

It is crucial for the student to make certain he comprehend what particular tests are adequate and what particular needs are required to be concentrate on the assessment details to file disability of the student.

It is also necessary to make sure that the individual who is filing student's disability has the professional certificates endorsed by the licensing board or testing company.

It is also essential to ensure that student should know how up to date his or her document of disability needs to be.

It is also crucial to determine if the deadlines of the application for the accommodation are submitted in advance as compared to the common deadlines of the application.

Students should not expect that he or she will get testing accommodations based on the past allotment of testing accommodations.

Students should prepare for the graduate/ licensing exams as it will guide them in receive the testing accommodations.

For getting the accommodations on graduate/ licensing exams, it is important to state a detailed diagnosis of the disability. For this reason, a professionally recognized diagnosis for the certain category of disability is required to be done, for case in point, the diagnosis of DSM-IV which involves for learning disorders.

It is also vital to be up to date as the terms and conditions of reasonable accommodations is based on the evaluation of the recent impact of the disability on the testing activity, which is in the best interest of individual to present latest documents. The reason such is that the signs of the disability might differ over time and in different conditions; the majority of cases an assessment should have been conducted within the past three years, for case in point, neuromuscular or visual conditions should be updated or are frequently subject to vary for current functioning (Ornstein, Levine and Ornstein, 2007).

According to past research, the research focuses on the responses from the students with three different types of disabilities about their activities, participation and feelings in their courses in institutions of education. In the study a survey of 12 college students is taken, from which ...