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Department of Rehab?
Anyone in the US ever work with the DoR before?
I've got an orientation appointment in a couple weeks and I'm just wondering what to expect. I'm really scared and nervous about it.
I started working with an advocate this week, because of issues I'm having with my school's disability resource center, with them basically doing (or at least attempting to do) a lot of illegal things... including taking my accomodations away (I have ADHD combined type, reading disorder, learning disorder nos, and PTSD, so I get extra time on exams, a distraction free testing environment, etc).... and to keep my accomodations the school was trying to make me pay over $2,000 to get an in depth assessment testing done even tho I had the basic testing done not long ago, I've already spent too much money on exams for them, and the person at my school who is trying to get me to do all this extra stuff has been harassing me every time she talks to me (she's compared me to a 3rd grader, has called me stupid, talks down to me all the time). Anyway, the advocate got me set up with DoR because once you're registered with the DoR then the school can't really do anything, and even if the school did still want extra tests done, DoR would pay for it (they'll also pay for my courses and textbooks, give me a little bit of gas money each week, and maybe help out with some other things).
I'm just really nervous cuz I'm not sure what to expect. My advocate went over it a little bit, but it'd just help to hear from someone else who has been thru DoR themselves.
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