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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 91241" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>Our community college staff was wonderful and about as supportive and helpful (both for son and mom) as could be. I hope they are the norm but I fear we were lucky. I thought I would have to make some waves to get my son accommodations but they were right on top of things, offering supports we never expected.</p><p></p><p>This is the real GED site: <a href="http://www.gedtestingservice.com/ged-testing-service" target="_blank">http://www.gedtestingservice.com/ged-testing-service</a></p><p></p><p>And this is the part about asking for accommodations in taking the test: <a href="http://www.acenet.edu" target="_blank">http://www.acenet.edu</a></p><p></p><p>Try the search option and look for other articles about disabilities.</p><p></p><p>Now, my son could go to a community college at 16 because of a program that PA has which awards high school diplomas for completing community college courses. Not all states have that. He wasn't able to take the GED until he turned 18 because of the rules for GEDs. As it turned out, he wasn't able because of his anxiety to either finish the college courses he started or take the GED until he happened to be 18, so that wasn't an issue in the end. But they did tell us when he tried to go to community college that colleges are covered by ADA and must make pretty much the same sort of accomodations that school districts are required to make under IDEA. My son doesn't have any learning disabilities and did a lot of learning on his own so he was able to take the test and pass the first time with no prep courses. But our community college would have worked with him had he needed help with classes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 91241, member: 1498"] Our community college staff was wonderful and about as supportive and helpful (both for son and mom) as could be. I hope they are the norm but I fear we were lucky. I thought I would have to make some waves to get my son accommodations but they were right on top of things, offering supports we never expected. This is the real GED site: [url]http://www.gedtestingservice.com/ged-testing-service[/url] And this is the part about asking for accommodations in taking the test: [url]http://www.acenet.edu[/url] Try the search option and look for other articles about disabilities. Now, my son could go to a community college at 16 because of a program that PA has which awards high school diplomas for completing community college courses. Not all states have that. He wasn't able to take the GED until he turned 18 because of the rules for GEDs. As it turned out, he wasn't able because of his anxiety to either finish the college courses he started or take the GED until he happened to be 18, so that wasn't an issue in the end. But they did tell us when he tried to go to community college that colleges are covered by ADA and must make pretty much the same sort of accomodations that school districts are required to make under IDEA. My son doesn't have any learning disabilities and did a lot of learning on his own so he was able to take the test and pass the first time with no prep courses. But our community college would have worked with him had he needed help with classes. [/QUOTE]
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