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@Polarbear

Unfortunately, they won't even give us a 504. Their reasoning is that she doesn't need it since they already are open to making accommodations in the classroom without one (it's a magnet school that is more liberal than a traditional school). Granted the accommodations she gets in the class don't include having test questions read to her. They said that maybe when she gets to 5th or 6th, before middle school, they may decide she could benefit from one that would carry over to middle school where teachers/schools are less flexible.

Regardless of how accommodating they are in the classroom she won't have accommodations for tests like this one, or standardized tests. And while she is capable of reading her accuracy is very poor and affects her comprehension of what she is reading and what is being asked and as a result she gets the answers wrong. This is clear even when we do math homework at night. She will read the questions/directions and she doesn't understand them and needs us to read them to her. She could also benefit from being in a quiet room without noises, even coughs and rattling of papers is hard on her ears but I'm not sure if this is an option even with a 504.

I'm starting to think I will opt out of this cogat test. This year I will have her take the state standardized testing and see how she does. If she doesn't do very well and stresses out about it I will refuse to have her take it until they put a 504 in place so that she can have a fair chance to demonstrate what she knows.