When should a university student be allowed academic accommodation For ADHD? A position statement for a unified procedure for use in Brazil.

Autor: Lisboa BO; ADHD Outpatient Program, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil., Caye A; ADHD Outpatient Program, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Center for Research and Innovation in Mental Health (CISM)/National Institute for Developmental Psychiatry (INPD), São Paulo, Brazil., Hernandes AM; Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, São Paulo, Brazil., da Silva AG; Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Laboratório de Psicologia Médica e Neuropsicologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Geriais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil., Rieder CRM; Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABN), São Paulo, Brazil., Sonuga-Barke E; School of Academic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK., Kestelman I; Associação Brasileira de Déficit de Atenção (ABDA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil., Nelson JM; Regents Center for Learning Disorders, University of Georgia, Athens, US., Castanho MIS; Associação Brasileira de Psicopedagogia (ABPp), São Paulo, Brazil., Fonseca RP; Sociedade Brasileira de Neuropsicologia (SBNp), São Paulo, Brazil., Hinshaw SP; Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, US., Rohde LA; ADHD Outpatient Program, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Center for Research and Innovation in Mental Health (CISM)/National Institute for Developmental Psychiatry (INPD), São Paulo, Brazil. UniEduK, Indaiatuba, Brazil.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999) [Braz J Psychiatry] 2023 May 01. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 01.
DOI: 10.47626/1516-4446-2022-2999
Abstrakt: Objective: To identify under what circumstances a university student should be allowed academic accommodation for ADHD. To frame an evidence-based policy for use in Brazil based on a worldwide experience.
Methods: We reviewed the literature to acquire information on what documents are commonly required by disability services before accommodation for ADHD is made (including malingering detection). We scrutinized the eligibility criteria of the best universities worldwide. Renowned experts in the field and national stakeholders were consulted.
Results: We found no international standard for the assessment of students with ADHD who request academic accommodation. Even renowned institutions worldwide differ from one another in their approaches to academic accommodation on the grounds of ADHD. We propose a national unified set of criteria for Brazilian universities, which could generalize internationally.
Discussion: Rigorous assessment is paramount for aiding students with disabilities while preventing ineligible students gaining an unfair advantage. Higher education institutions nationwide and beyond may benefit from adopting a unified set of criteria for eligibility to ADHD accommodation programs.
Competing Interests: Luis Augusto Rohde has received grant or research support from, served as a consultant to, and served on the speakers’ bureau of Aché, Bial, Medice, Novartis/Sandoz, Pfizer/Upjohn, and Shire/Takeda in the last three years. The ADHD and Juvenile Bipolar Disorder Outpatient Programs chaired by Dr Rohde have received unrestricted educational and research support from the following pharmaceutical companies in the last three years: Novartis/Sandoz and Shire/Takeda. Dr Rohde has received authorship royalties from Oxford Press and ArtMed. Dr. Hinshaw receives book royalties from Oxford University Press and St. Martin’s Press. The other authors report no conflicts of interest.
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