Request this only if you can test at a regularly scheduled national test center under standard time limits and use either a regular type (10-pt.) or large type (18-pt.) test booklet, but your disability requires accommodations at the center. All scores achieved through National Testing are reported as "National." No details about the accommodations provided are reported.
Examples include assignment to a wheelchair-accessible room, large type test booklet, marking answers in the test booklet, permission for diabetics to eat snacks, etc. Examples of accommodations for students with hearing impairments include: seating near the front of the room to lip-read spoken instructions; a sign language interpreter (not a relative) to sign spoken instructions (not test items); a printed copy of Spoken Instructions with visual notification from testing staff of start, time remaining, and stop times.
To request this form of testing for the first time, include all of the following information in a written request with your paper registration folder postmarked by the registration deadline:
- Your name, mailing address, and phone number.
- The test date (month and year) and test option (ACT or ACT Plus Writing) you marked in Block M on your registration folder.
- The name, city, state, and 6-digit code for each of the test center choices you marked in Block N on your registration folder.
- Explain your disability and clearly state the accommodations you are requesting with enough detail so we can make arrangements.
- Enclose written documentation from your school describing in detail the accommodations you normally receive in school.
- The name and phone number of a school official familiar with your current test accommodations.
If you are requesting this form of testing for the first time, you must register by paper folder (not on the Web), so that you can provide your current documentation.
The paper folder and your written request for accommodations must be mailed together and be postmarked by the registration deadline. If you do not submit your request with your registration folder postmarked by that deadline, the test center will not be required to provide accommodations for you on test day.
If you are re-registering and want to test again with the same previously approved accommodations, you may re-register through your student Web account or by calling 319/337-1270.
Because advance arrangements are necessary, students requiring accommodations at the test center cannot test as standbys.
If necessary, ACT will contact you or your high school for additional information. If accommodations are approved, ACT will then make arrangements for you. In order to provide the approved accommodations, ACT may not be able to assign you to your preferred test center.