This web-site was created in the hopes that more teachers, parents and students with disabilities will be able to have easy access to information regarding the accommodations that students with disabilities need and are entitled to when taking standardized tests.

The material on this web-site has been compiled by:
Joan Mathews, Denise Velsor, Susan Ward Davis, and Lauren Werch.
All four are graduate students at the University of North Florida working on Master's Degrees in Special Education.

Joan Mathews is a graduate of Trinity Baptist College with a Bachelor's degree in elementary education. She began teaching at Trinity Christian Academy in 1991where she taught first grade for seven years. In 1998, she moved to the fifth and sixth grade special education class where she is currently teaching.

Denise Velsor currently holds a Master's degree in Deaf Education and is working on her second Master's degree in Special Education (SLD). She is currently working as an Educational Diagnostician at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind. She has 23 years experience in the field of Deaf Education.

Susan Ward Davis obtained her Bachelor's degree in elementary and art education in 1974 from a British University. Having lived in America for five years, she has almost completed her Master's Degree in Special Education, Mental Handicap. She is now in her second year of teaching at Mt. Herman Exceptional Student Center in Jacksonville, where she teaches students with profound mental handicap.

Lauren Werch is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently resides in Jacksonville, Florida. She is in her third year teaching students with learning disabilities at Chets Creek Elementary in a third grade inclusion classroom.

Please use the links below to go directly to a page you want to see
or click the bookworm to go to the next page.

Definition of the Problem
Rationale for Systems Change
Proposed Systems Change
Future Directions
References and Additional Links
State Board of Education Rule 6A-1.0943, FAC
Possible Testing Accommodations
Determining Accommodations
Testing Accommodations Training Budget
Benefits of TAT
Legislation from the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA), 1997
Federal and State Laws Requiring Schools to Provide Accommodations

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