[Blindmath] Blindmath Digest, Vol 114, Issue 6

[Mary Woodyard]

Hi Jennifer,

I am the parent of a VI student who is a Freshman now in college but I just
helped him get accommodations through College Board for AP testing and it is
different for every student.  If you are taking a College Board class you
probably already have some accommodations.  My son did not take AP Econ - he
took APUSH, AP GOV and AP LANG.  However for his general College Board SAT
Math testing I know that to get a talking calculator approved took a little
work.  He also had use of a computer for voice dictation and screen reader
purposes.

To get any of this technology approved we had to fill out the special
request which you can get an overview for through this link
https://www.collegeboard.org/students-with-disabilities/request-accommodatio
ns.  I know that you will need to work with the testing coordinator at your
school to request these accommodations unless you are home schooled.  What I
learned through multiple requests is that your first one will probably not
be approved.  When I got a letter approving some accommodations - but not
the technology ones, I assumed they were denied.  They were not.  College
Board simply pended any technology requests and sent a request to the school
for more information.  College Board  will be looking for how you do your
work now.  You need to be working really closely with your Testing
Coordinator to show College Board how you would verbally describe the graph
or create a graph now.  What I found worked for us was that I made a short
(one minute) video that we emailed into the Special Testing unit showing how
my son did this type of work in his current school setting.  By showing
College Board how he used screen readers, voice dictation and talking
calculators in his school setting for normal testing, they approved it for
the college board AP test.  I actually mailed a video on a DVD in with his
original request and then sent an email with the video when they needed more
information.

Email me offline if you want more information marywoodyard at comcast.net.  To
answer your other questions, my son did have to provide his School computer
with Dragon and Zoom Text installed.  He also provided his own CCTV and
accessible TI 84 calculator.  Don't forget to get a microphone approved if
you are using voice dictation as that caused a snag in one SAT test.  You
will probably need to request extended time if you are using any type of
scribing - be it a human scribe or voice dictation.  When you get extra time
- depending on whether it is double time or time and a half - you will also
need to request testing over multiple days for the general SAT - you can
probably do a subject test in one day.  In my son's school, the Testing
Coordinator was not sure how to proceed when they got College Board's
request for more information about the accommodations - so just work closely
with them and good luck!

Mary Woodyard

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Today's Topics:

   1. Quick question r.e. College Board AP Economics Exam's and
      graphing your answers (Jennifer Benelli)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 23:02:29 -0800
From: Jennifer Benelli <jbenelli at smcoe.org>
To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Blindmath] Quick question r.e. College Board AP Economics
	Exam's and graphing your answers
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Dear Listers:

Thank you for your time to read this unique question.

At least one of the free response questions will require a graph-based
answer.

If you ever took an AP Economics Exam (by College Boards) or math related AP
Exam, how did you present your answers?

Did College Board provide materials?
Did you bring your materials?

Did you just verbally describe how you would create a graph?

Thanks,
Tzipora





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