Trying to get accommodations at univeristy, having trouble

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06 Feb 2009, 1:31 pm

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I guess one option is to ask your counselor how does one file a Disability discrimination complaint and to where. You don't have to do that, but it's quite amusing if you do. Here's a links for where you can file a complaint.
http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/CFAPPS/OCR/contactus.cfm
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oc ... intro.html

Doing anything like that would undoubtedly result in retaliation. (Yes, it's illegal, but it's damn hard to prove they're doing it)

That is true. Wait until you get a professor that doesn't think you should have any accommodations and refuses to abide by them unless you complain. I have had two professors so far refuse to give me my double time or send it over to the testing area. Both claimed I had an unfair advantage. I complained and I magically received a B instead of an A,

I guess you could ask your Psychologist to call up your school and explain to them why you need those certain accomadations

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06 Feb 2009, 4:00 pm

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I seem to have lucked out as far as professors go; I've actually had several of them offer me extra time despite it not being one of my approved accommodations and despite me not asking for it (or wanting it).

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I guess you could ask your Psychologist to call up your school and explain to them why you need those certain accomadations

He simply shouldn't have to do that. He already sent them my testing evaluation and his interpretation of it. Yet some ditzy moron fresh out of her master's program gets to override the opinion of the PhD.

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06 Feb 2009, 4:28 pm

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Does anyone have any ideas on how I should proceed here?

You may be best to take the accommodations granted, and get on with your study rather than make an issue out of it. Sometimes you've just got to accept these kind of injustices occur, and there's nothing much you can do to change things. I've got exactly the same handwriting problem. It's so bad I was once accused of defacing a form I had to fill-in at a plant where I was working for the day. I've also taken lots of exams in my life, including over the last few years, and lose marks because of my semi-legible scrawl. I still managed to pass most of them -- some with very good marks. I'm sure if you've got this far, you will, too.

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06 Feb 2009, 8:59 pm

ascan wrote:

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Does anyone have any ideas on how I should proceed here?

Then what the hell is the purpose of the ADA or university disability offices even existing?

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I've got exactly the same handwriting problem. It's so bad I was once accused of defacing a form I had to fill-in at a plant where I was working for the day. I've also taken lots of exams in my life, including over the last few years, and lose marks because of my semi-legible scrawl. I still managed to pass most of them -- some with very good marks. I'm sure if you've got this far, you will, too.

The issue isn't being able to pass the exam, it's being able to do as well as I am capable of. The exams this professor gives are basically impromptu papers (had her for another class last semester), and I've yet to put down more than about half of what I could have written on any of the exams.

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07 Feb 2009, 4:59 am

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Then what the hell is the purpose of the ADA or university disability offices even existing?

They've made some allowance for your disability, Orwell. You can't expect to get it all your way, even if that's how it "should" be. You're certainly in a better position than any of us over 30 ever was. This might sound harsh, but if you want to get anywhere in life you won't do it by playing the disability card every time an opportunity arises. Obviously accept any help offered graciously, but don't expect it as a right.

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07 Feb 2009, 8:36 am

ascan wrote:

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Then what the hell is the purpose of the ADA or university disability offices even existing?

They've made some allowance for your disability, Orwell. You can't expect to get it all your way, even if that's how it "should" be.

And I have been willing to meet them halfway. I've also made sure to use any accommodations with discretion. I waived the distraction-reduced testing last semester when it was inconvenient for my genetics professor.

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This might sound harsh, but if you want to get anywhere in life you won't do it by playing the disability card every time an opportunity arises. Obviously accept any help offered graciously, but don't expect it as a right.

I think you're just misunderstanding where I'm coming from here. The typing is almost as much for the prof as it is for me- my handwriting makes her job harder, and I don't like inconveniencing people in that manner. And it's not as though I jump at every chance to play the "disability card." I have consistently declined offers of extended time on tests every time they've been made (which is fairly often).

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07 Feb 2009, 10:18 am

Something that may be helpful and something that may not be:

Have you been tested for Central Auditory Processing Disorder? This can make note-taking impossible and may get you that granted.

However, I'm in my third and last year in a graduate program, and the two times I requested help from the disability office it turned out to be a disaster. Lesson learned in my case, at my school (in the US) is to just muddle along. And oh yes, graduate school is much more aspie-friendly

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07 Feb 2009, 10:21 am

MsTriste wrote:

Something that may be helpful and something that may not be:

Have you been tested for Central Auditory Processing Disorder? This can make note-taking impossible and may get you that granted.

I have a dx of sensory integration disorder, and they know that my sensory processing in general is pretty bad. The note-taking I don't even care about any more. I just want to be able to type my essay exams. For a class in which the professor has specifically approved of me typing my exam rather than writing. That really, really does not seem to be so out of line.

If I go for any more evaluations, it will be for dysgraphia.

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07 Feb 2009, 10:39 am

Maybe this is a dumb question, but can you write your exam so it's barely legible?

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07 Feb 2009, 10:47 am

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Maybe this is a dumb question, but can you write your exam so it's barely legible?

What do you mean "can I?" I don't have any other way of writing it! :lol:

Seriously though, my prof commented on how bad it was when I asked her for permission to type this semester's exams. She said she was able to "decode" it with some effort, but also said that's probably because she's had a lot of practice in reading 16th-century Russian scribbling. So you probably get the picture- my handwriting really sucks. *I* can't read the exams I wrote for her last semester.

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