Make sure you see someone
Unaffiliated with the first opinion,
To ensure objectivity.

First, find out what, if any, specific documentation the university
requires for disability support services under the ADA or Section 504 of
the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 when the student has ADHD. It may be that
the school will tell you exactly what you need to provide to document
your son's need for services. Many universities have the information on
their web sites.

The school's guidelines may specify what kinds of diagnostic evaluations
and psycho-educational testing needs to be submitted, as well as what
kind of documentation will be needed to explain the impact the ADHD will
have on your son's ability to function in a college environment.

If the university doesn't have specific guidelines for documenting the
need for services because of ADHD, this info may help you:

For an individual to be diagnosed with ADHD, even "mild" ADHD, the
individual's symptoms must be impairing, so what you need to do is get
documentation to the school about the ways your son is impaired, and how
those impairments relate to a college environment, which will require
more information than just the medical diagnosis of ADHD.

If your son was diagnosed before college, and had an IEP or 504 plan in
high school, get all the documentation your son's high school has about
his educational and psychological testing, teacher ratings and comments,
copies of the IEP or 504 plans, etc.

If your son was not diagnosed before college, or he did not have an IEP
or 504 plan in high school, or any educational and psychological testing
 was done several years ago (probably 3 or more, depending on what his
university's policies may be), you will need to get educational and
psychological testing done to document the ways in which ADHD will
affect your son's ability to function in college. If Kaiser has already
done those recently, you need to get documentation of those test results
to the university. Make sure that all of your son's strengths,
weaknesses and deficits are noted, and that there is an explanation of
how these will impact him in college.

After the testing has been done, you should also get a statement from
your son's psychologist and doctors about the types of supports and
accommodations he will need and why these are needed. This statement
should relate requested accommodations and other support services to
your son's specific weaknesses and deficits.

The psychologist who does the testing will often know exactly what kinds
of information the university will want.

Nancy
Unique, like everyone else
[Posting from ASAD]