College Student Disability Services
I had a meeting with the "ADD Specialist" in the Disability Services office at school. She's insistent that I need extra time to take exams, a quiet room to take them in and a "fun, interactive" class. That may be true for most primarily inattentive ADDers - but those "accomodations" are exactly what I DON'T need! I'm one of the odd ADDers that is actually good at math. The reason I don't do well in that class is that it moves so damn slow I'm bored to tears. Sitting in a classroom for 3 hours is pure TORTURE to me. The accomodation I want is to be able to study on my own (meaning: just get the textbook and assignments, take the exams in the testing center and not attend class). I want to condense the class instead of prolonging the torture with "extra time". I could probably "cram" all the assignments and tests into a month instead of dragging it out an entire semester.
Question is: Has anyone attempted to do this and does it sound like a "reasonable accomodation" to request?
To get to where i'm at, I learned NOT to study more than thirty minutes on any subject(self help books).any lecture that lasts longer will have significant gaps in the middle. I read just before bed and right after waking up to avoid interference in what i"M studying. I have to try to keep up with the chancing enviroment of my job , and it's starting to move faster than I cam memorize the equipment.
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I work in a testing center at a community college. (Part-Time) We do give "special" accommodations to students the request them. The accommodations are only suggestions. What you do is ultimately up to YOU! We also offer courses online. So you can do them at YOUR pace when YOU feel like it…
The way my daughter was finally diagnosed with ADD was she was in the top 3 in the schools Accelerated Reader program but could NOT pass a Reading comprehension test for anything. The difference was the computer could keep her attention where the test in class she was paying too much attention to what was going on around her and out the window and her hair and her feet and, and, . . . You get the idea. We ALL learn differently and have to find New ways to learn. By taking an online class you can work and study when you are “plugged in” to the task at hand and when you start to zone off into another dimension, you can check on your message boards, take a run around the block then go back to studying. My problem is staying focused long enough to get the job done.
Good luck and keep trying!
If it were math, I would be sound asleep after an hour's worth of figures and more figures. But I don't see your solution a being too reseanoble. Consider your school's hour-long math classes. You will probably have to go a couple more days a week, but it might be what you need.
This is what I did, taking four 50 minute classes a week instead of the two- or three-hour classes. That way, by the time I was getting bored, the class was over.
Good luck.
Personally, I don't think it's reasonable. Why? The profs would have to write you and the class separate tests (to prevent cheating, of course). Extra work for them. Dunno about the assignments ... we usually get our assignments pretty early in the term. If the prof had all of the assignments ready, it would be no problem, but if he/she had to go out of his/her way to make up all of the assignments just for you, it wouldn't be reasonable.
As for not going to class, who's stopping you from skipping? At my school, no one cares whether you come to class or not. Furthermore, regardless of whether they "insist" that you take extra time to write tests etc., you don't actually have to do it.
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