How to get help for adults trying to get there GED and have a LD?

Question

I need help finding out where I can get some teacher help preparing for my GED exam and I have a LD. Are classes made for this kind of help in adults. Does anyone know of anything. I live in the Orange County area.

Answer 1

Aside from the many self-help books at Borders and Walden books on "how to pass the GED test", you can also contact your local community school district where you live and ask about adult education preparation classes.

Answer 2

Contact your local GED Testing Center for more information

From http://www.acenet.edu:

"Requesting Accommodations for Disabilities

Every candidate for the GED Tests should have a fair opportunity to demonstrate his or her knowledge and skills under reasonable and appropriate test conditions. For some candidates, a disability may interfere with their ability to fully demonstrate what they know under standard testing conditions.

Learning disabilities, for example, can affect your ability to store, process, and/or produce information. They can also affect your ability to read, write, speak, do math, and socialize. Many physical disabilities can affect a person’s ability to sit for long periods of time, to write using a pencil and paper, or to read normal-sized print.

Accommodations in testing are available for adults with documented physical disabilities as well as learning disabilities, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and emotional or psychological disabilities. Each request is considered on an individual basis.

Accommodations may include:

Audiocassette edition (with large-print reference copy)

Large print edition

Braille edition

Extended time

Use of a scribe

Use of a talking calculator or abacus

Supervised frequent breaks

Use of a private room

One-on-one testing at a health facility or candidate’s home

Vision-enhancing technologies

Use of video equipment

Sign-language interpreter

Other accommodations as warranted by candidate’s need

If you have a documented disability, contact your local GED Testing Center and request one of the following forms listed below. Staff at the testing center can tell you what is needed to complete each of these forms. Return the completed form to the same location. Once the disability is documented and accommodations are approved, your local GED Chief Examiner will arrange to conduct the testing using approved accommodations. The candidate will not incur any additional charges for these accommodations."

Answer 3

I am glad you are going for it,I think the GED should offer some modifications for LD.

I took mine without and passed on the first try.

Answer 4

Check to see if your local community college offers any GED classes. If they do, go talk to the counselors there. Usually if you have a LD and take a class at a community college, you will be elligible for extra tutors and other things to help you based on your particular LD.

Answer 5

No.  Ask for a tutor at the school.

Answer 6

All states offer free classes to study for GED exams.

These teachers should help you, my daughter is doing this exact thing now and she has LD's.  She said these classes are a lot better than what she did in public school.

Call you local dept of education and ask to speak to the person in charge of GED, they should tell you info all about it.