[humanser] Law School Admission Council to Implement Sweeping Changes to Testing Accommodation Procedures For Test-Takers with Disabilities

[Marion Gwizdala]

Dear All,

	This precedent-setting decision has incredible positive implications
for those of us involved needing to take high stakes tests for professions
in the Human Services fields. I hope the Association of Social Work Boards
(ASWB) and the National Board for Clinical Counselors (NBCC), as well as
others who administer these tests fall in line without requiring us to
resort to litigation!

Fraternally yours,
Marion Gwizdala


----- Original Message -----
From: U.S. Department of Justice
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 1:02 PM
Subject: Law School Admission Council to Implement Sweeping Changes to
Testing Accommodation Procedures For Test-Takers with Disabilities


On August 7, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
California upheld significant changes to LSAC's testing accommodation
policies and practices. The court's decision upheld almost all the changes
to LSAC's testing accommodation procedures recommended in a report by a
panel of experts created pursuant to a 2014 consent decree that resolved
allegations under the Americans with Disabilities Act in Dept. of Fair
Employment & Housing (DFEH) v. Law School Admission Council, Inc. (LSAC),
Case No. 12-1830--EMC (N. D. Cal). The District Court invalidated a limited
portion of the recommendations (generally regarding timing for evaluating
testing accommodation requests and how recent documentation in support of a
request for testing accommodations based on mental or cognitive impairment
must be) but upheld the bulk of the recommendations as written, including
those that: categorize the type of documentation that will be sufficient for
various types of testing accommodations requests, establish criteria for
evaluating requests, require an automatic review by outside professionals
before any request may be denied, and create an appeals process for those
candidates whose testing accommodation requests are ultimately denied. LSAC
will implement the upheld recommendations starting immediately for testing
accommodation requests related to the December 2015 LSAT administration and
later administrations.

For more information about the Court's decision in DFEH v. LSAC or the ADA,
please visit our ADA website at http://www.ada.gov/ or you may also call the
Justice Department's toll-free ADA Information Line at 800-514-0301 or
800-514-0383 (TDD).


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