Exempting from 6 SEA Policy: What is your SEA a Language policy on if students with a specific Domain disability may be exempted from a language domain and possible Please to your ramifications of this decision (i.e., state policy related impact of designation, etc.)? to exempting students from State Response: RIDE does not 1.3 specific domains have a policy that exempts a ELLs Identified due to a student based on their disability as Deaf or designation of deaf category. While we work diligently or or hard-of-hearing to ensure that all statewide with Blindness or a visual assessments offer sufficient test or Visual impairment. supports so every student can access Impairments and participate in their required tests, there may be an Page 6 accommodation used by a student that we are unaware of. In these cases, we encourage school administrators to complete the Unique Accommodation Request Form, found at , so we may review the accommodation for use on the ACCESS, or any other, test.
6 1.3 ELLs Identified as Deaf or or with Blindness or Visual Impairments Page 6 Exempting from a Language Domain Please to your state policy related to exempting students from specific domains due to a designation of deaf or hard-of-hearing or a visual impairment. SEA Policy: What is your SEA policy on if students with a specific disability may be exempted from a language domain and possible ramifications of this decision (i.e., impact of designation, etc.)? State Response: RIDE does not have a policy that exempts a student based on their disability category. While we work diligently to ensure that all statewide assessments offer sufficient test supports so every student can access and participate in their required tests, there may be an accommodation used by a student that we are unaware of. In these cases, we encourage school administrators to complete the Unique Accommodation Request Form, found at , so we may review the accommodation for use on the ACCESS, or any other, test.