D's Algebra II/Trig teacher noticed that D was turning in her homework (when she can find it -- sigh...) with one problem per page in the notebook. She thought that D might be having trouble on tests because of the clutter on the page of a lot of problems, and created special tests for a couple of chapters where she put one math problem at the top of each page. So on a 10 problem test, D gets 10 pages with a problem at the top of each. Her math grades when up about a full grade on tests once this was done. Shortly after that we started discussing the possibility of a non-verbal learning disability (NVLD) with the school psychologist and study skills specialist, and one of them said they had seen this accomodation for NVLDs in the past. And that the CollegeBoard will offer this accomodation on the SAT (like all SAT accomodations, though, we need to have recent test results backing up the diagnosis AND the student needs to have been using the accomodation in the classroom).
