Medical Documentation

1. Recent Medical Documentation. All candidates must include with their application a copy of a comprehensive written report from a qualified professional who conducted an individualized assessment and who gave the diagnosis which forms the basis for this Request for testing accommodations. The report must be recent and comply in all other respects with the documentation guidelines: Guidelines for Documentation of Physical and Psychiatric Disabilities; Guidelines for Documentation of Learning Disabilities and other Cognitive Disorders; and/or Guidelines for Documentation Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
2. Historical Documentation. Suppose the application for testing accommodations is based upon a learning disability. In that case, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, or other cognitive disorder, medical documentation concerning your first formal diagnosis, and all later diagnoses is extremely helpful. For ADHD, it is essential that you attach copies of any available historical documentation that can establish a childhood-onset (i.e. elementary school) of symptoms and impairment. Including historical documentation that evidence symptoms at an early age improves the likelihood of being awarded accommodations.

Personal Statement

Provide a personal statement describing when you first became impaired by your disability, when you were first formally diagnosed, how your disability impacts your daily life activities, including your educational and testing functioning, and how your disability affects your ability to take the bar examination under standard testing conditions. Please explain how each accommodation requested alleviates the impact of your disability. If English is a second or foreign language, please include the age at which you first began speaking and learning English.

Proof of Past Accommodations

Provide proof of past accommodations received, if any, for law school, college, and prior standardized examinations (i.e., LSAT, SAT, MPRE, TOEFL, etc.).

Test Scores and Transcripts

For applications based on Learning Disabilities, ADHD, or other cognitive disorders, you must provide copies of your score reports on the SAT and LSAT, and transcripts from all colleges and law schools attended. If English is a foreign or second language, you must provide any TOEFL scores you have received.

Prior or Concurrent Bar Examinations

If you have ever applied for a bar examination in any jurisdiction other than Indiana, or if you are applying for a concurrent bar examination, list each such jurisdiction and complete the information below.

I am in connection with my application for testing accommodations on the bar examination, authorize the Indiana State Board of Law Examiners (Board) to provide, at its discretion, a copy of any and all documentation that I submit in connection with this application, including any confidential medical records or information, to such personas and/or consultants as the Board may deem necessary to evaluate my application for testing accommodations adequately. If requested by the Board, I further agree to submit to diagnostic testing by a physician, psychologist or other qualified professional chosen by the Board.

If further information regarding the documentation that I have provided is needed, I authorize the Board to contact the professional(s) who diagnosed and/or treated my disability. I further authorize such professionals to communicate with the Board in this regard to provide such clarification and/or further information and documentation as the Board requires.

I authorize the Board to contact those entities which have provided me testing accommodations or with whom I have a current application for testing accommodations pending to ascertain what accommodations have been or will be granted or denied. I further authorize such entities to communicate with the Board in this regard to provide such clarification and/or further information and documentation as the Board requires.

I hereby release, discharge, and exonerate the Indiana State Board of Law Examiners, its agents, and representatives and/or any person from any and all liabilities of every nature and kind arising out of the furnishing. Inspection or receipt of medical records, documents, records and other information, or any investigation made by or on the Board's behalf.