TESTING ACCOMMODATIONS - ADA CHECKLIST

This ADA checklist is designed to assist you in gathering information and preparing material to submit a complete request for accommodations. Use this checklist to complete all information listed below that pertains to the accommodation you are seeking and submit the required forms with your online application. (Click here for printable PDF of this Testing Accommodations ADA Checklist).

STEP 1 - READ AND PREPARE REQUIRED MATERIALS

Read the TEST ACCOMMODATION GUIDELINES

Note the filing deadline. some supporting documentation must be completed by third parties. Care must be taken to plan ahead so that all documentation is available by the filing deadline. Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit applications as soon as they know they will be requesting accommodations so that appropriate action can be taken when making arrangements for any accommodation that is granted.

STEP 2 - COMPLETE REQUEST FOR TESTING ACCOMMODATION FORM (FORM 1)

Required for all applicants seeking testing accommodations. Exception: Applicants previously granted accommodation by Arizona’s Committee on Examinations and not seeking any change to accommodation previously granted may upload the notification letter in lieu of submitting a new accommodation request, if accommodation notification stated the accommodation would be valid until a future date and that date is not expired.

Accommodation requests must be currently dated and submitted on Arizona forms, even if accommodation was previously requested of another jurisdiction or agency.

STEP 3 - COLLECT AND UPLOAD THE COMPLETED TEST ACCOMMODATIONS FORMS & ALL SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION INCLUDING OBJECTIVE CLINICAL VALIDATIONS

Submit all of the following forms that are applicable to your request.

• Physical Disability Verification Form (FORM 2)

  Request and ensure that your physician or other professional licensed to diagnose and treat your disability complete the form and return it to you along with supporting clinical documentation for submission to the Committee.

• Learning Disabilities Verification Form (FORM 3)

  Request and ensure that your physician or other professional licensed to diagnose and treat your disability complete the form and return it to you along with supporting clinical documentation for submission to the Committee.

  Submit copies of your high school transcript, as well as your undergraduate, postgraduate, and law school transcripts. Additional documentation as outlined in the Guidelines will assist the Committee in properly assessing your request.

• Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/HD) Verification Form (FORM 4)

  Request and ensure that your physician or other professional licensed to diagnose and treat your disability complete the form and return it to you along with supporting clinical documentation for submission to the Committee.

  Submit copies of your high school transcript, as well as your undergraduate, postgraduate, and law school transcripts. Additional documentation as outlined in the Guidelines will assist the Committee in properly assessing your request.

• Mental/Psychological Disability Verification Form (FORM 5)

  Request and ensure that your physician or other professional licensed to diagnose and treat your disability complete the form and return it to you along with supporting clinical documentation for submission to the Committee.

• Law School Verification Form (FORM 6)

  Request and ensure that the law school administrator or professor responsible for authorizing test accommodations complete the form, stating all test accommodations granted.

  You are required to submit this form if accommodations were granted in any law school testing. Please submit one Form 6 for each law school, if more than one.

• Bar Admissions Administrator Verification Form (FORM 7)

  Request and ensure that the bar admissions administrator responsible for authorizing test accommodations in the jurisdiction where you tested completes the form stating all the test accommodations granted, if any.

• You are required to submit this form if accommodations were requested on a bar examination in another jurisdiction, whether they were granted or denied. Please submit one Form 7 for each jurisdiction, if more than one.

Complete accommodations request with all required forms and supporting documentation is subject to filing deadlines and fess. See Ariz. R. Sup. Ct. 35(b)(5) and Administrative Order 2011-141.