ADD and ADHD

The Office of Disability Services (FIT-ABLE) provides services and reasonable accommodations to students, working with each individually. In order to establish eligibility for services and/or reasonable accommodations, students must provide documentation from a professional licensed or certified to diagnose and treat their disability.

Documentation Requirements

Students with ADHD must establish eligibility for services and/or reasonable accommodations by providing disability documentation from a professional licensed or certified to diagnose and treat their disability.

Disability documentation for students with ADHD must be provid by one of the following:

  • A psychoeducational or neuropsychological evaluation accompanied by an IEP/504, or other learning disabilities report.

          AND/OR:

Documentation must include:

  • diagnosis and DSM code
  • history
  • observations
  • comprehensive standardized adult IQ test; the WAIS-III is recommended, with results and interpretation of all sub-tests included
  • comprehensive test of achievement; the Woodcock-Johnson is recommended, with results and interpretation of all sub-tests included
  • conclusions
  • summary
  • recommendation of accommodations

Additional evaluations are the professional call of the diagnostician, and will help insure the credibility of the FIT-ABLE eligibility criteria, as well as providing our staff with valuable insight into the students disability-related accommodation requests and abilities.