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Hello. I don't have AD/HD, but while I'm doing research for accommodations (ex. Extra time for test, not housing) for me and how to get them in university since I will be there next year (fall, 2017), I see there is all this specific information for people with adult AD/HD and it gets its own special category and everything. Like, even autism (which I do have) doesn't have this special recognition and is clumped under psychological conditions even though AD/HD and ASD are both neurodevelopmental disorders.

Anyways, but in high schools, there is no special category and it's very hard to get accommodations for AD/HD because schools like to say that medication can "fix" difficulties that are part of AD/HD, and everyone wonders if AD/HD should go under learning disability or behaviour category (or emotional disturbance, though I HATE this name). In high school, autism has its own category.

I was just wondering why universities are more accepting of people with AD/HD compared to elementary and high schools? Is it because less people have adult AD/HD? Is it because it's so common now? Or is it because schools don't understand how much AD/HD affects learning? It's a very complex issue, but I'm trying to understand it a bit. Thanks for any help .

Social anxiety disorder, ASD, GAD, OCD, and panic disorder

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Adhd is accommodating probably more frequently in public schools than almost any other category. Students can qualify for special education services as OHI, for instance, in the state where I teach if the symptoms are severe or complicated by other learning disabilities. My son was served throughout his education that way. Those that don't qualify special ed can be accommodated under 504 provisions which more often where I see it.

In college you have to be your own advocate, they won't look out for you first. If you want accommodations you take them with you, arrange those accommodations through the college and hope the professors will follow through. My son chose to go without accommodations in college for his adhd, and while it was a bit of a learning curve, he is actually quite glad he has to figure out how to manage his disability on his own (in retrospect he feels like he was coddled in school too much previously and in a way they created more problems for him). He knows now what he needs to do to manage his issues with adhd, speech, and severe fine motor problems now without someone else doing it for him and feels in the long run he'll be better off.

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Originally Posted by lolagrace

Adhd is accommodating probably more frequently in public schools than almost any other category. Students can qualify for special education services as OHI, for instance, in the state where I teach if the symptoms are severe or complicated by other learning disabilities. My son was served throughout his education that way. Those that don't qualify special ed can be accommodated under 504 provisions which more often where I see it.

Hello. I forgot to mention I'm in Canada. There seems to be a longer process to get stuff. There is no OHI category here in Canada. Here are the categories for an IEP in Canada:

1. Behaviour
2. Communication
• Learning Disabled
• Autistic
• Language Impairment
• Speech Impairment
• Hard of Hearing
3. Intellectual
• Gifted
• Mild Intellectual Disability
• Developmental Disability
4. Physical
• Blind-Low Vision
• Physical Disability
5. Multiple

And there is no 504 plan. Just IEP or no IEP.

But anyways, I'm just saying there is special recognition in universities (from all the sites I checked in Ontario, Canada) and this process you have to go through differently than other psychological conditions. Here in Canada, these are the eight categories recognized by universities (or at least the universities I looked into):

Acquired Brain Injury
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Blind/Visually Impaired
Chronic Medical, Physical
Deaf/deaf/Deafened/Hard of Hearing
Learning Disability
Physical Disabilities
Psychological or Psychiatric Conditions

I'm just saying there isn't anything in schools like this but in universities there is and I wonder why. Thanks for your response .

Social anxiety disorder, ASD, GAD, OCD, and panic disorder

Lexapro, 10 mg; Ativan 0.5 mg PRN