The fact sheet focuses on considerations when testing adaptations are needed, provides some facts about disability, and identifies a variety of adaptations of testing procedures which have been developed and successfully used in schools, vocational training programs, and on college campuses. Testing adaptations are discussed in terms of disability verification procedures, consistency in policy, and maintenance of academic and technical standards. The section on facts about disability distinguishes between students with hidden and visible disabilities and between students disabled since birth and recently disabled. Examples are then given of appropriate alternative testing procedures for hearing impairment (use of interpreter); vision impairment (dictation of answers to a proctor); mobility impairment (exam given in an accessible location); speech impairment (substitution of written for oral recitation exams); emotional impairment (individual test administration); learning disability (provision for alternate methods of recording answers). Also considered are the test environment, exam proctors and administrators, timing of tests, and laboratory performance and vocational-technical course mastery. Resources at the college level include the designated office for special services and the Association on Handicapped Student Service Programs in Postsecondary Education, and the HEATH (Higher Education and the Handicapped) Resource Center. (DB)