Transcript: Martha Thurlow, PhD

Listen as Martha Thurlow discusses why this is important (time: 0:38).

I think the bottom line is that, if a student is going to use an accommodation for an assessment, that student should have used that accommodation, should have had exposure to it before the time of the assessment. In the past, I heard many stories about how an accommodation actually interfered with a student’s performance on the test because they’d never had the accommodation before. It really threw them for a loop. They didn’t know what to do. One of the critical things is making sure that the student [with] an accommodation has seen it before the day of the test.