The Yellin Center is delighted to welcome guest blogger Annabel Bayer to our blogging family.    As a young student in a classroom, you are ...

 Last week, the ACT Exam announced a change to how they would offer accommodations to students with learning, attention, and other disabilit...

Your blogger recently spoke with the mother of a high school sophomore. Her daughter was starting to think about college and both she and h...

The mother of a high school student with attention and reading difficulties recently asked us what she could do to make her son take advanta...

Almost exactly two years ago, in September 2015, we wrote a post about new guidelines from the U.S. Department of Justice, which were a res...

The College Board has announced important changes to they way they determine testing accommodations for students with disabilities, effectiv...

Virtually every college in the country is required to offer “reasonable accommodations” for students with documented disabilities under the ...

Standardized exams -- SAT, ACT, GRE, MCAT, LSAT, and others -- are  "gateways to educational and employment opportunities" and the...

Back in May 2014, we wrote about a Consent Decree from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, which chan...

Medical training is filled with rites of passage. To become a physician, one must dissect cadavers, sit through endless lectures, and often...

Now that summer is in full swing, high school graduates heading off to college in the fall should be thinking ahead to what they need to do ...

We were fascinated by a recent piece  in The New York Times about the controversy over handwriting instruction. The article thoughtfully su...

Thanks to our colleague, Jo Anne Simon, Esq ., whose legal practice focuses on disability civil rights in high-stakes standardized testing a...

The obligation of public school districts to identify students who may have disabilities and to proactively determine if they qualify for...

Over the past few weeks we have heard from a number of college students who were dismissed or suspended from their schools because they had ...

As we have written before, students who have graduated high school are no longer covered by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ...

Christopher Webb Families of children who struggle with learning and related issues, especially those who receive services under the Ind...

The end of high school is an exciting time, filled with special events like prom and graduation and, for most students, the anticipation of ...

Yesterday found us sitting in on a meeting at Nassau Community College , on New York's Long Island, where a Disability Services Counsel...

High school seniors have generally made their college decisions and are focusing their energies on end of year activities such as proms an...