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Exam accommodations

StephMW

I wonder if anyone has advice please.  My daughter, 17, has recently been diagnosed with autism by the NHS after years of waiting.  She has impending A Levels and one of the accommodations proposed was extra exam time due to her not understanding inference and having processing difficulties as a result of which she struggles with exam questions and the way they are worded.  The school are saying ‘no’ to extra time because it is not her usual way of working.  Does anyone have any experience with this please? Thanks in advance Pray tone1

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  • Taking exams in a small room, not a large hall filled with people, and an extra 25% of time are standard accommodations for autistic people taking university exams.

    All schools are required by law to make 'reasonable accommodations', so that disabled students are not disadvantaged by their disability, relative to their non-disabled peers. What your daughter's school are insisting upon could be classed as discrimination on the grounds of disability and therefore illegal.

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  • Taking exams in a small room, not a large hall filled with people, and an extra 25% of time are standard accommodations for autistic people taking university exams.

    All schools are required by law to make 'reasonable accommodations', so that disabled students are not disadvantaged by their disability, relative to their non-disabled peers. What your daughter's school are insisting upon could be classed as discrimination on the grounds of disability and therefore illegal.

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