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

[Janice Toothman]

Marion,

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On 9/5/2015 8:41 PM, Marion Gwizdala via humanser wrote:
> 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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