Accommodations
for College, Graduate & Professional School.
“Why is this so much harder for me than it seems to be for everyone else?”
“I did fine in school or work before. Why am I struggling now?”
“I think I need accommodations. What, exactly, might be helpful?”
“I need accommodations for the MCAT/LSAT/SAT/ACT exams and they told me I need a more recent assessment”
“Reasonable Academic Accommodations”
Do I qualify?
Higher education, whether it's your first year of college, a graduate program, or preparation for a licensing exam, introduces a level of independence, workload, and self-direction that earlier schooling often doesn't.
For a lot of students, that's exactly when underlying learning differences, attention difficulties, or processing differences become visible for the first time.
If you're finding that the gap between your effort and your results doesn't add up, testing can help explain why, and can open the door to formal accommodations if they're warranted.
What Does Evaluation Involve?
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Comprehensive, standardized measures of cognitive skills, executive functioning, academic achievement, attention, learning, and processing speed paired with a focused conversation about how your challenges show up in testing situations, timed environments, and the classroom.
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How your difficulties have affected you from grade school through your current program.
This matters because accommodations must be tied to documented functional limitations, not general difficulty or preference.
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The final report translates your results into specific, individualized recommendations, each supported by your testing data and formatted to meet the documentation standards of your school, program, or testing board.
Examples include: a university disability services office, the AAMC, or LSAC.
For Students: College, Graduate & Professional School
Whether you're trying to identify appropriate accommodations as an undergraduate or navigating the stricter requirements of graduate school, professional programs, or licensing exams (GRE, LSAT, MCAT, bar exam, medical boards), documentation needs to meet specific standards. Most institutions and testing boards require documentation that:
Is based on comprehensive, standardized testing, not a symptom checklist alone
Clearly identifies a specific diagnosis or condition
Describes how that condition functionally impacts academic performance, particularly on standardized, timed testing
Recommends specific, individualized accommodations, with a rationale tied directly to the testing results
Follows the format and criteria set by the specific institution or testing board, which can vary significantly
Graduate and professional programs often have stricter, more specific requirements than undergraduate institutions, including a need for recent testing. Some boards require evaluations within the last three to five years, meaning older childhood or college testing may not qualify, even if it previously supported college accommodations.
This evaluation is designed to meet these standards, whatever stage you're at, and results are provided in a report you can submit directly to your school's disability services office or the relevant testing board.
You don't need prior accommodations to start. Some graduate and professional students are seeking this kind of documentation for the very first time, even if they never used accommodations in college. Others need updated testing because their previous evaluation no longer meets a specific board's current standards.
Either way, this evaluation is designed to produce documentation that holds up to the more rigorous scrutiny these boards apply.
Your Path Forward:
1. Reach out
Take the first step and schedule a free 15-minute Zoom call to see if working together would be the right fit for your needs
2. Come in for testing
Engage in evidence-based, gold standard psychological testing to access cognitive skills, executive functioning, and emotional patterns to create a clear image of your strengths and challenges.
3. Get the answers
Receive a clear, easy to read report with testing results and a concrete action plan to move forward.