Disabilities Defined

State GED Testing leaders called GED Testing Administrators can grant special accommodations to GED candidates for different types of documented disabilities:

1. Physical or chronic health disabilities: such as cerebral palsy, epilepsy, or blindness

2. Emotional and mental health disabilities: such as schizophrenia, major depression, or Tourette Syndrome

3. Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD): includes perceptual handicaps, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia (news article), and developmental aphasia.
   
   
4. Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorders (AD/HD)

Each of these types of disabilities severely limits a GED candidate’s ability to perform essential skills required to pass the GED Tests.

Each request for accommodation, or for testing session modifications, is considered on an individual basis. To begin the process of requesting an accommodation, the GED candidate should go to the nearest GED Testing Center and request the correct forms or go this web site's section called FORMS. These forms describe and collect the information needed to document the disability. Once a form is completed and correctly, it should be returned to the GED Testing Center. GED Testings are available during regular business hours to answer specific questions about policies and procedures.

Because extended testing hours and special materials are often needed, the first point of contact for the person with a disability or his/her advocate is your nearest GED Testing Center.

Please note that incomplete forms will be returned. Proper licensed diagnosticians must conduct the evaluations or the request will be turned down.

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