Learning Disability Accommodations - Page 2

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  • #187710
    mnl314
    Member

    Hi there!

    I was wondering if anyone out there has a learning disability that allowed them accommodations for the CPA exam?

    I’m in process of getting results and submitting them with my application for consideration. I have an abstract disability and I don’t know what options the board will give me. Any advice? Experience?

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  • #667425
    mnl314
    Member

    Gian Really, you think they could do that?? That's exactly what I want. You've given me hope!

    #667426
    mla1169
    Participant

    Yes they should be able to make other accomodations than just extra time. I know I could have taken the exam orally or had someone to type for me if I chose to, and I was assured by my neurologist that I could get that accomodation. In the end, I wanted to do it on my own.

    FAR- 77
    AUD -49, 71, 84
    REG -56,75!
    BEC -75

    Massachusetts CPA (non reporting) since 3/12.

    #667427
    Guti
    Participant

    When they do accommodate you, please don’t tell anyone at work.

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    #667428
    mnl314
    Member

    mla1169 awesome! that is very motivating. thank you for the input!

    Gian why do you say that?

    #667429
    Guti
    Participant

    mnl314,

    You know how people can get jealous that you were able to get a “supposedly” easier exam. The world of corporate America can be a very cruel place to be.

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    #667430
    mnl314
    Member

    Gian

    gotcha…I agree. I wasn't planning on telling anyone, mainly because everyone I work with has already passed and I don't like to bring light to the fact I am STILL taking mine.

    #667431
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I'm a bit shocked that you can get extra time for ADHD. At what point is a uniform exam no longer uniform?

    #667432
    Guti
    Participant

    Darcer, I guess you would be more in shocked if you only knew that half of the people that “supposedly” have ADHD do not really have it, but they want to get Ritalin to be able to have an edge during final exams.

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    #667433
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Im well aware of nootropics and off label use of various drugs. That isn't shocking to me. I don't think ritalin would be much of a help on test day but would help for studying.

    I could see accommodations for physical ailments, but other stuff seems tricky to me.

    #667434
    Guti
    Participant

    Have you used any of the nootropics? I tried Piracetam with choline,but it dint do much. I read good reviews about phenylpiracetam.

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    #667435

    It bothers me that people act like ADD/ADHD is some kind of joke… or, at the very least, a flimsy diagnosis undeserving of accommodations.

    The documentation requirements for exam modifications under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) are so strict. The financial investment for obtaining the required neuropsychological evaluation is so high. This isn't about some shitty primary care doctor lazily handing out Ritalin to keep the kiddies at bay…

    If you don't know the material, all the “extra time” in the world isn't going to save you.

    [Full disclosure: I do not have ADD or ADHD… the only reason I know anything about the exam modification process is because I have Lupus (uncontrolled active SLE)]

    #667436

    I have an anxiety disorder and it bothers me that people would say that only physical disabilities should require accommodations. Due to my agoraphobia just sitting in the testing room with everyone else was torture. I took my first 3 tests in the “normal” way and failed the first, and BARELY passed the other 2 (76 on both) because I was so focused on finishing as fast as possible to get the hell out of the room. For the last 2 parts I asked my psychologist to help me obtain accommodations, which was relatively easy as I have been in treatment for this for years. Thanks to my accommodations, I was able to take my last 2 sections in a private room, with some extra time. I did NOT use the extra time but being in a private room allowed me to at least relax enough to focus on the test instead of just trying to get through it as fast as possible. To prove the difference, I scored an 84 on the first section I took with my accommodations, which was also the section on my absolute weakest area! I'm waiting for my score on my final section.

    Please don't assume that if one does not have a physical disability then they are not truly in need of any accommodations. Most of the people I have met with invisible disabilities fight like hell against using accommodations. This is the first and only time I've requested ANY sort of accommodation for my anxiety disorder. The rest of my life I spend trying to prove to the world just how “normal” I am.

    #667437
    mla1169
    Participant

    Side question (and I am NOT judging, just legitimately curious. As you may have read above some would consider that I have a disability although I never have and never will, if you're curious what this supposed disability is look up videos of focal dystonia/writers cramp on you tube. Yes, I can mix drinks with my bare hands)

    For those of you who have or will need an accommodation for the exams, do you also request accomodations at work?

    FAR- 77
    AUD -49, 71, 84
    REG -56,75!
    BEC -75

    Massachusetts CPA (non reporting) since 3/12.

    #667438

    I just don't see the AICPA offering a different format for anybody . It's a uniform exam for a reason. Not that I downplay any disability but the AICPA isn't known for being flexible.

    MBA,CMA,CPA, CFF?, ABV?

    #667439
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I'm not trying to make light of any of these conditions and I am not an MD. I just want to know when a “uniform” exam is no longer “uniform”

    If almost everyone has the same amount of time and the same conditions and other people don't for whatever reason, it is not the same exam.

    My view, and it is only an opinion, is this. Would the accommodation help someone that doesn't have a disability? If not, I have no real problem with it. Your own room, it would help but not that much, so fine, who cares. But more time (due to something cognitive and not physical)? Well that would help most people.

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