UCN provides evaluations for students with academic or learning difficulties who are seeking accommodations for standardized examinations, including the SSAT, AP tests, SAT, ACT, GRE, LSAT, GMAT, or MCAT. Testing accommodations are changes to the regular testing environment and/or auxiliary aids and services that allow students with disabilities to demonstrate their true aptitude.

Accommodations fall into five basic categories. Establishing which of these will be helpful to the student depends on the nature of the individual’s difficulties and their history. Testing evaluates which accommodation(s) will be the most helpful for the individual. The most common accommodations include:

• Presentation: use of large print exam booklets, reduced number of items per page, or having the test questions and instructions read aloud (either with an audiotape or designated reader)
• Response: allowing verbal responses, allowing a computer to be used for responses (with or without spell check or grammar programs), permitting answers to be written directly in the test booklet and having a scribe transfer answers to a Scantron bubble sheet, or allowing dictation of answers (with scribe, recording device, or speech-to-text software)
• Time: extending allotted time to complete a test or allowing frequent breaks
• Location: providing a space that minimizes distractions, minimizing the number of other students in the room, or providing special lighting or acoustics (e.g., noise cancelling headphones)
• Scheduling: allowing subtests to be taken in a different order, administering a test at a specific time of day, or allowing different sections to be taken on different days