Gifted and Disabled

Accommodations for Entrance Exams. . .

Dec 2nd

Posted by AllisonHertog in Accommodations

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Getting accommodations from the College Board (which administers the SAT, AP exams and others) or from any other standardized testing or professional licensing boards, is even more difficult, and is governed by a whole different set of laws, than getting accommodations in public grade school. When a parent of a disabled child come to me More >

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Finally, Some Good News for Gifted and Disabled!

Feb 6th

Posted by AllisonHertog in Gifted and Disabled

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One of the most challenging and infuriating areas in which I practice is advocating for the gifted and disabled (called “twice exceptional”) these days.  I feel particularly passionately about these cases because I fall into the category of twice exceptional (I suffer from multiple learning disabilities) and when I was a student in public school, I was More >

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