Introduction
Facilities for Test Takers with Disabilities or Health-related Needs:
ETS is focused on serving test takers with inabilities or health-related needs by giving reasonable accommodations that are proper given the reason for the test. To acquire housing, Candidate should contact ETS Disability Services before you can register for the test.
Request
Request Accommodations
The Bulletin Supplement for Test Takers with Disabilities or Health-related Needs contains strategies and structures for asking for testing accommodations. The Supplement should be utilized together with the information in the TOEFL iBT® Information and Registration Bulletin and registration form.
Did You Know?
All test takers asking for any accommodations must register by mail or email through ETS Disability Services and have their facilities approved before their test can be planned.
Candidates request should be submitted as early as possible, especially if candidates are requesting an alternate test format. Documentation review takes roughly 6 weeks once your request and complete paperwork have been received. In the event that extra documentation must be submitted, it can be another 6 weeks from the time the new documents are received until the audit is finished. Test takers asking for accommodations cannot register using the online registration system. Request
Send accommodations documentation
To submit a request for accommodations, send all completed forms and documentation to:
Mail:
ETS Disability Services,
P.O. Box 6054,
Princeton, NJ 08541-6054 U.S.A.
Courier Service:
ETS Disability Services,
225 Phillips Boulevard,
Ewing, NJ 08628-1426 U.S.A.
Email:
disability.reg@ets.org
Contact
Contact details for ETS Disability Services:
Monday–Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time.
Email:
stassd@ets.org
Phone:
1-609-771-7780,
1-866-387-8602 (Toll-free for test takers in the United States, U.S. Territories* and Canada)
Fax:
1-609-771-7165
Mail:
ETS Disability Services,
P.O. Box 6054,
Princeton, NJ 08541-6054 U.S.A.
The following are some of the accommodations available for the TOEFL iBT® test. Candidates who require different accommodations can request them as part of the registration and accommodations approval process. ETS must review and react to your accommodations request before your test can be scheduled.
Technical Accommodations
- Screen magnification
- Selectable background and foreground colors
- Kensington Trackball mouse
- IntelliKeys® keyboard
- Ergonomic keyboard
- Keyboard with touchpad
- Sign language interpreter for spoken directions only
- Oral interpreter for spoken directions only
- Oral interpreter for Listening section only
- Writer/recorder of answers
- Test reader
- Audio version of the test
- Reader's script version of the test
- Braille test (in contracted or uncontracted Braille)
- Braille test with reader's script
- Large print version of the test
- Regular print version of the test
- Listening section omitted
- Speaking section omitted
- Extended testing time
- Additional rest breaks
- Transcripts of audio elements in Speaking and Writing sections
If the candidate would like to request accommodations other than those listed above, Candidate must describe them in Part II of the Testing Accommodations Request Form which can be found in the Bulletin Supplement (PDF).
- If test taker has a health-related need that requires him/her to bring equipment, beverages or snacks into the testing room, or to take extra or extended breaks, he/she must follow the accommodations request procedures in the Bulletin.
- If one would like to request accommodations other than those listed in the above Bulletin, he/she must describe them in Part II of the Testing Accommodations Request Form which can be found in the Bulletin Supplement.
- The above Bulletin is for the academic year 2019 – 2020, the Bulletin may change as per the official notification and time period.