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When should a university student be allowed academic accommodations for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? A position statement for a unified procedure for use in Brazil
In higher education, reasonable accommodations are increasingly made for students with a wide range of disabilities. However, rigorous assessment is paramount to ensure these students are supported while preventing ineligible students from gaining unfair advantages. In this context, we sought to ide...
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Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10668313/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37127329 http://dx.doi.org/10.47626/1516-4446-2022-2999 |
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author | Lisboa, Bernardo Oppermann Caye, Arthur Hernandes, Angelo Masson da Silva, Antonio Geraldo Rieder, Carlos Roberto M. Sonuga-Barke, Edmund Kestelman, Iane Nelson, Jason M. Castanho, Marisa Irene Siqueira Fonseca, Rochele Paz Hinshaw, Stephen P. Rohde, Luis Augusto |
author_facet | Lisboa, Bernardo Oppermann Caye, Arthur Hernandes, Angelo Masson da Silva, Antonio Geraldo Rieder, Carlos Roberto M. Sonuga-Barke, Edmund Kestelman, Iane Nelson, Jason M. Castanho, Marisa Irene Siqueira Fonseca, Rochele Paz Hinshaw, Stephen P. Rohde, Luis Augusto |
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description | In higher education, reasonable accommodations are increasingly made for students with a wide range of disabilities. However, rigorous assessment is paramount to ensure these students are supported while preventing ineligible students from gaining unfair advantages. In this context, we sought to identify under which circumstances a university student should be allowed academic accommodation for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and to outline an evidence-based policy for use in Brazil based on the global experience. We reviewed the literature to acquire information on what documents are commonly required by disability services before accommodations for ADHD are provided (including detection of malingering) and scrutinized the eligibility criteria of leading universities worldwide. Finally, renowned experts in the field and national stakeholders were consulted. Despite an exhaustive search, we found no international standard for the assessment of students with ADHD who request academic accommodation; even renowned institutions worldwide differ in their approaches to granting accommodations on the grounds of ADHD. Therefore, we propose a unified set of nationwide criteria for Brazilian universities, which could be generalized internationally. Higher education institutions in Brazil and beyond may benefit from adoption of such criteria. |
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spelling | pubmed-106683132023-08-21 When should a university student be allowed academic accommodations for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? A position statement for a unified procedure for use in Brazil Lisboa, Bernardo Oppermann Caye, Arthur Hernandes, Angelo Masson da Silva, Antonio Geraldo Rieder, Carlos Roberto M. Sonuga-Barke, Edmund Kestelman, Iane Nelson, Jason M. Castanho, Marisa Irene Siqueira Fonseca, Rochele Paz Hinshaw, Stephen P. Rohde, Luis Augusto Braz J Psychiatry Special Article In higher education, reasonable accommodations are increasingly made for students with a wide range of disabilities. However, rigorous assessment is paramount to ensure these students are supported while preventing ineligible students from gaining unfair advantages. In this context, we sought to identify under which circumstances a university student should be allowed academic accommodation for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and to outline an evidence-based policy for use in Brazil based on the global experience. We reviewed the literature to acquire information on what documents are commonly required by disability services before accommodations for ADHD are provided (including detection of malingering) and scrutinized the eligibility criteria of leading universities worldwide. Finally, renowned experts in the field and national stakeholders were consulted. Despite an exhaustive search, we found no international standard for the assessment of students with ADHD who request academic accommodation; even renowned institutions worldwide differ in their approaches to granting accommodations on the grounds of ADHD. Therefore, we propose a unified set of nationwide criteria for Brazilian universities, which could be generalized internationally. Higher education institutions in Brazil and beyond may benefit from adoption of such criteria. Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria 2023-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC10668313/ /pubmed/37127329 http://dx.doi.org/10.47626/1516-4446-2022-2999 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Special Article Lisboa, Bernardo Oppermann Caye, Arthur Hernandes, Angelo Masson da Silva, Antonio Geraldo Rieder, Carlos Roberto M. Sonuga-Barke, Edmund Kestelman, Iane Nelson, Jason M. Castanho, Marisa Irene Siqueira Fonseca, Rochele Paz Hinshaw, Stephen P. Rohde, Luis Augusto When should a university student be allowed academic accommodations for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? A position statement for a unified procedure for use in Brazil |
title | When should a university student be allowed academic accommodations for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? A position statement for a unified procedure for use in Brazil |
title_full | When should a university student be allowed academic accommodations for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? A position statement for a unified procedure for use in Brazil |
title_fullStr | When should a university student be allowed academic accommodations for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? A position statement for a unified procedure for use in Brazil |
title_full_unstemmed | When should a university student be allowed academic accommodations for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? A position statement for a unified procedure for use in Brazil |
title_short | When should a university student be allowed academic accommodations for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? A position statement for a unified procedure for use in Brazil |
title_sort | when should a university student be allowed academic accommodations for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? a position statement for a unified procedure for use in brazil |
topic | Special Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10668313/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37127329 http://dx.doi.org/10.47626/1516-4446-2022-2999 |
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