Is allowing accommodations such as extended time or transcribers unfair to students who do not get the accommodations?
No. Denying reasonable accommodations is unfair treatment. Accommodations allow students with disabilities to demonstrate their true abilities. Obvious examples: Allowing students with vision deficits to wear glasses is not unfair to those who do not need glasses. Allowing a person with a broken hand to dictate answers to exam questions is not unfair to those who are able to write their answers.
Related Questions
- By making certain accommodations to students with disabilities, am I not discriminating against the other students who would probably prefer such things as extended time for tests, etc.?
- How will the length of time that students were given for the extended writing response affect the scoring of those responses?
- Does giving extended time on exams give the student with a disability an unfair advantage over other students?
