LANTITE Reasonable Adjustments: How to Apply

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If a disability, chronic illness, mental health condition or learning difference affects how you sit a test, you can apply for adjusted conditions for LANTITE. ACER decides each request on the documentation you provide. One rule overrides everything else here: you must apply before the registration window closes. There is no review of your results after you sit, so the deadline is the whole game. This guide covers what counts as an adjustment, what you can apply for, the timeline, the evidence required, the review process, and the First Nations language proficiency alternative. (Source: ACER reasonable-adjustments page, 2026.)

1. What counts as a reasonable adjustment

A reasonable adjustment is a change to test conditions so a candidate with disability can participate on the same basis as their peers. ACER decides each request individually, based on the supporting documentation you provide, so the same condition can lead to different adjustments for different people.

A reasonable adjustment is not the same as special consideration, which is a post-test review of your results. Special consideration is not available for LANTITE.

Because ACER decides each request on the documentation you provide, the same condition can produce different outcomes for different people, and an adjustment granted to someone else is no guarantee of the same grant for you. Build your application around your own evidence rather than around what a friend or classmate received. The aim of the process is participation on the same basis as your peers, not an advantage, so the conditions you are granted are matched to the limitation your documentation establishes.

If your needs change between one test window and the next, your application can change with them, because each window is assessed on its own merits. (Source: ACER Guidelines for Reasonable Adjustments, January 2026; ACER reasonable-adjustments page, 2026.)

2. Adjustments you can apply for

ACER groups adjustments into four categories. The list below is the published set of examples, but it is non-exhaustive: other adjustments can be granted on a case-by-case basis if your documentation supports them.

Extended time and a separate room are the most commonly requested adjustments, but you are not limited to the examples in the table. If you need something not listed, describe it in your application and let your documentation justify it. Ask for each adjustment specifically rather than requesting a general allowance, because ACER assesses each one against the evidence of why you need it.

The four categories cover different parts of how the test reaches you and how you respond to it. Presentation adjustments change how the test material is displayed, such as larger fonts, written instructions or screen zoom. Response adjustments change how you record your answers, such as text-to-speech software, a scribe or a reader. Setting adjustments change the environment you sit in, and the published examples here are the longest list. Timing adjustments change how long you have and when you can pause, covering extended time and rest breaks.

Because the published set is non-exhaustive, treat the table as a starting point. Where your documentation supports a need that does not map neatly onto an example, name the specific adjustment and explain, in your own words and through your practitioner's report, exactly why each one is required. (Source: ACER reasonable-adjustments page, 2026; ACER Guidelines, January 2026.)

3. The timeline that matters most

Apply online through your ACER candidate account, after you complete your test registration but before the registration closing date for that test window. Supporting documentation is required with every application.

Two things catch people out. First, adjustments and applications do not carry over between test windows. If you were granted extra time last window, that grant does not follow you to the next one. You reapply, with documentation, every single window you sit.

Second, there is no remedy after you sit. As covered above, special consideration is not available for LANTITE, so the registration closing date is a hard wall. Miss it and you either sit under standard conditions or wait for the next window.

2026 registration closing dates

The closing date is the deadline for your adjustment application, not just your registration. These dates roll over annually, so confirm them on the ACER site for your year before you plan around them.

(Source: ACER reasonable-adjustments page, 2026.)

4. Evidence you need to provide

Your documentation should describe three things: the disability or condition, how and to what degree it affects sitting the test under standard conditions, and the need and reason for each specific adjustment you request. For extra time, for example, explain why you need it and how it helps.

Provide the documentation on the practitioner's official letterhead, with the date, the practitioner's title, name, registration number, contact details and signature. It must not be prepared by a practitioner related to you.

ACER's preferred documentation also covers the diagnosis and its severity, the date of diagnosis and most recent evaluation, your functional limitations, the impact of any medications or treatments, the recommended adjustments with an evidence-based rationale that names Literacy or Numeracy, and a history of prior adjustments or an explanation of why none were used before.

How recent your documentation must be

(Source: ACER Guidelines for Reasonable Adjustments, January 2026.)

5. If your adjustments are not enough: the review process

If you consider your approved adjustments to be inappropriate, you can request a review in writing to ACER. Lodge the request no later than one week after the registration closing date for the relevant test window. ACER notifies the outcome shortly after, on a date set for that window.

Because the request must be in writing to ACER, set out clearly which approved adjustments you consider inappropriate and why, and point back to the documentation you already supplied. The review is keyed to the registration closing date for your test window: lodge it no later than one week after that date, so the window's closing date governs both your original application and any review of it. ACER notifies the outcome shortly after, on a date set for that particular window — for 2026 Window 1, for example, the review outcome was notified on 30 January 2026, which gives a sense of the short turnaround but is window-specific rather than a fixed number of days.

This is a review of the adjustment decision, made before you sit. It is not a way to challenge your result after the test. If you think the conditions you were granted will not work for you, raise it within that one-week window rather than sitting under conditions you know are not right. Once that window has passed and you have taken the test, the same rule from Section 1 applies: there is no special consideration for LANTITE and no remedy after the fact. (Source: ACER reasonable-adjustments page, 2026.)

6. The First Nations language proficiency alternative

From 2024, AITSL's Addendum to the Accreditation Standards recognises Australian First Nations language proficiency, verified by the relevant cultural authority, as an acceptable alternative standard to LANTITE. The accreditation wording requires that graduates possess literacy and numeracy broadly equivalent to the top 30% of the population "and/or possess high levels of Australian First Nations language proficiency."

As providers operationalise it, the evidence is one of two things: a letter bearing the seal of a Land Council stating the language in which you are proficient, or a certificate, transcript or other evidence of completing a formal qualification in an Australian First Nations language.

The verification sits with the relevant cultural authority rather than with ACER, which is why the two accepted forms of evidence both come from outside the testing system. A student initiates the alternative through their initial teacher education provider rather than through the ACER test registration system, which is why providers publish their own recognition forms to collect this evidence.

Providers must still support these students to develop their English literacy and numeracy. This is an alternative standard for accreditation, not an exemption from literacy and numeracy support. The accreditation wording frames the two paths together, so the language proficiency route stands as an acceptable alternative standard rather than a waiver of the underlying expectation. (Sources: AITSL Accreditation Standards and Procedures / Addendum, corroborated by VIT, April 2025; Southern Cross University provider form.)

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