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idorko CH.com Veteran Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 208 Central Maine Gender:	Americans with Disabilities? May 6^th, 2013 at 4:33pm Just curious if cluster headaches are covered under the act. I've hit a wall with a testing company for my SAT test this year with my oxygen tank and I don't want to be off base in my mom sends them an email with some text from the ADA.
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Re: Americans with Disabilities?
Reply #1 - May 6^th, 2013 at 8:20pm

I would start with your current school. Ask the counselor what kind of accommodations can be made for you. The ADA, for the most part, ensures that reasonable accommodations be made in the case of most chronic or recurrent illness. It's pretty wordy and complicated (imagine) but a phone call might help (from the ada<dot>gov site): Good luck!

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Reply #2 - May 7^th, 2013 at 8:02am

I'm going to a private school currently and a rather small one so I am afforded any accomidation I need within reason.
What had happened was I signed up for these two tests and was told I needed to sign up for the special circumstances sections. After a lot of faxing the people at CollegeBoard told my teacher/counselor that even with paper work they may not allow me to have an oxygen tank with me.
I'll hand those numbers off to the people who need them, thanks for the info.

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Reply #3 - May 8^th, 2013 at 10:21am

Why not explore the possibility of taking the test in a location that would allow an oxygen tank to be accessible while having the test administered by a proxy? Our son did that many times in high school - he finished his high school via a virtual school, and exams were proxied by a librarian in our home town at the local library.

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idorko CH.com Veteran Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 208 Central Maine Gender:	Re: Americans with Disabilities? Reply #4 - May 8^th, 2013 at 12:32pm @Brew, I'll look into it. I know I can take the SATs at my current school, but with my AP test being a week from now I'm not sure if I can make the switch that fast. Anywho, I'll see what I can do and keep you guys updated.
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wimsey1 CH.com Alumnus Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 2457 MA Gender:	Re: Americans with Disabilities? Reply #5 - May 9^th, 2013 at 7:59am What's the objection to an oxygen tank? lance
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idorko CH.com Veteran Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 208 Central Maine Gender:	Re: Americans with Disabilities? Reply #6 - May 9^th, 2013 at 9:14am they're worried it will be distracting to other students from what I understand.
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Lobster CH.com Alumnus Offline Posts: 2417 Gender:	Re: Americans with Disabilities? Reply #7 - May 9^th, 2013 at 11:27am idorko wrote on May 9^th, 2013 at 9:14am: they're worried it will be distracting to other students from what I understand. I agree with them. Someone handling a hit with o2 in the middle of a quiet room... I cannot imagine much that would be more distracting.
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idorko CH.com Veteran Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 208 Central Maine Gender:	Re: Americans with Disabilities? Reply #8 - May 10^th, 2013 at 10:16am oh of course, the idea was if I needed it right then and had time to gtfo. The plan is probably to leave it right in front of the door to the testing room.
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