Students requesting accommodations on the basis of a traumatic
brain injury (TBI) or brain insult must provide documentation by a neuropsychologist.
The documentation must include:
- A thorough neuropsychological evaluation which includes assessment
of the areas of attention, visuoperception/visual reasoning, language,
academic skills, memory/learning, executive function, sensory, motor,
and emotional status. Data should include subtest scores and percentiles.
- Evidence of current impairment. A history of individual's presenting
symptoms and evidence of behaviors that significantly impair functioning.
- A diagnostic interview. The interview must contain self-report and
third-party information pertaining to: developmental history, family
history, learning or psychological difficulties, relevant medical
history, and a thorough academic history.
- Evidence of alternative diagnoses or explanations being ruled out.
The documentation must investigate and discuss the possibility of
dual diagnoses and alternative or coexisting mood, learning, behavioral,
and/or personality disorders that may confound the diagnosis.
e. A specific psychological diagnosis as per the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual - IV (DSM-IV).
- A clinical summary which:
1. indicates the substantial limitations to major life activities
posed by the disability,
2. describes the extent to which these limitations would impact
the academic context for which accommodations are being requested,
and
3. suggests how the specific effects of the disability may be
accommodated, and
4. states how the effects of the disability are mediated by the
recommended accommodations.
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