Testing for specific learning disabilities?
You should have been given a Parent's Rights handbook, according to federal law IDEA.(Individuals with Disabilities Education Act). This is a link to my state's handbook. http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/ec/p... On page 15, it states that: 1. You have the legal right to request a reevaluation for your daughter. The law states that a reeval has to be done a minimum of every 3 years, but you can request one at any time. 2. If you do not agree with the school, you have the legal right to an Independent Educational Evaluation. http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/test.iee.... 3. You have the legal right to request a due process hearing if you and the school cannot come to an agreement with respect to your daughter's education. (This includes testing for a math disability.) (pg. 23 N.C. handbook) While it is true that this is an NC handbook, the law is a federal law, and therefore applicable to you regardless of which state you live in. Your daughter is also protected under the Office of Civil Rights. http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr... Call the Special Education teacher & request a meeting to discuss concerns. Document the date, time, with whom you spoke, & anything he or she tells you. If the teacher refuses, call the Special Education Director & ask for a meeting. At the meeting, request a reevaluation for your daughter to include a test for math. You are supposed to be considered just as important to the IEP Team as any other member of it. (In my career, I always considered the parent to be the most important member!) If you do not have a copy of your district's Parents Rights handbook, request one. If they did not provide you with one, a law has been violated, & the school district can be sued. If I can clarify anything or help, please feel free to email me. Good luck!
Why would having a learning disability disqualify someone from military service?
A disability of any kind is usually enough to disqualify someone from military service. This is for two reasons. One is mentioned in the other answer to this question, mission readiness. They want to make sure that the military member can do their job. However, a learning disability doesn't necessarily impact this ability for all military ratings, which brings us to the second reason, money.If you get out of the military with a disability that you can claim was either caused or exacerbated by military service, they have to shell out a check to you for the rest of your life. Since most disabilities, physical, mental, or psychological can potentially be made worse by the high stress, high intensity job that the military entails, this means that almost everyone they let in with a recorded disability is someone they are going to have to pay for that disability when that person gets out. Once it's on record as existing, all they have to do is say that the military negatively impacted it and boom, its service connected. To avoid this, there is a general policy to just reject anyone with any sort of obvious disability right off the bat.
Can you join the military with a learning disability?
Sorry, no.
If you have a learning disability does that disqualify you from joining the military?
A learning disability does not disqualify a person by itself, and most recruiters won't even ask if an applicant even has one. You do have to pass the ASVAB, and no special accommodations are given (ie: you don't get extra time because you have testing anxiety). You cannot enlist if you are currently on medication for ADD / ADHD, etc. Talk to a recruiter, they can advise you.
Low math skills for ASVAB can I pass by working on other areas?
No - each part of the ASVAB is timed. You can know how to do math very well yet if you cannot comprehend what you are doing quickly, your doomed to fail the test. Here's what he needs to do. Since he has already not qualified 2x, he will have to wait 6 months before he tests again. During his next test, on each section of the test, have him do what questions he can, and when the Test Proctor says they have 1 min to go, have him start checking off "B" for the remaining questions. Since you are graded on correct answers, you have a better chance of getting a few more correct by just guessing at the remaining questions instead of leaving them blank (which of course, if left blank have no chance of being correct). No guarantee of course that it will work in your son's case but worth a shot. Also, in some remote, very remote cases, they can do Test Score Wivers. This time in history might be a good time. Again, who knows. It's worth asking his recruiter about. We didn't do ASVAB Score Waivers it in the Air Force however it was discussed in the enlistment regulations.
Why doesn't the military want people with learning disabilities?
I have a friend who has been denied an ROTC scholarship because the cadre have observed him in the field and he apparantly has some learning challenges. He went to College with accomadations for school and dropped them to try to contract into the program. They have also told him that he shouldnt go as enlisted either. However, I have met some enlisted soldiers that are extremely stupid (borderline retarded). Yet, they seem to function quite well in the army. This friend of mine is quite intelligent. What I am basically asking is what is the difference between someone with learning disabilities and someone who is for lack of a better word "dumb"? What do the retarded people have that the learning disabled people don't have? Why do retarded people function in the military more than learning disabled people?
I want to enlist in the military but I've been baker acted does it affect me enlisting?
Not likely and the "stupid" decision is going to have a huge impact as well, if it was bad enough to get you put into a mental hospital then safe bet it is something that will bar you for life from the military. You also have to wait out the time as you are not allowed to own / use weapons............which makes you a bit useless to the military.
If I did not pass the ASVAB test, what should I do to join the military?
As George stated… There is a retest policy in place and waiting times before retaking.But don’t have a stress out stroke trying to crash study for the retake.The test is designed at the 10th grade level. Any Senior graduating high school that actually EARNED their diploma should be able to breeze through with an average score(40–60) without even trying.The score does not equate to how many answers you got right. It equates to how well you did compared to a control group of test takers who benchmark the Norm. So if you did well as is expected, as most would do, then you are going to be around 50+ or so.Failing the test… equates to dumber than a box of rocks. Sorry, I don’t intend to insult. just facts of life here.The test is also an APTITUDE test, not a test of how much facts you have memorized. It tests you aptitude for different areas, language, math, mechanics, etc… Your ability to learn those areas.If you scored so low as to be below the minimums, and you have already graduated school… Sorry, but no amount of crash studying is going to move you’re scores more than a few points. It won’t turn you from brain dead to a genius overnight.Either you blew off your education, or your school system failed you. Regardless, no amount of studying is going to move your scores by more than a few points.This isn’t like studying for a regular test on a particular topic.This is a test of your ability to learn and general ability in various areas.Without a solid foundation of education and learning the studying is not gonna do you any good.And if you had that solid foundation to begin with, you would have passed and not needed a retake.it’s a catch-22, I know. But there it is.