Accommodation Support
What is an Accommodation?
An accommodation is a change or adjustment made to help someone with a disability participate more fully in activities or tasks. It's like a tool or support that makes things easier for them to do. Generally, accommodations can relate to an individuals response, presentation of information, timing, environment, and assessments.
Accommodations Explained
These types of accommodations cover adjustments made to how information is presented during instruction. Examples include using larger or color-coded text, providing printable versions of materials, offering audio recordings, and implementing other strategies to enhance the presentation of instructional content.
These types of accommodations can include ways for a student to communicate their understanding or respond to assignments. Options may include delivering oral reports, utilizing speech-to-text software, and accessing assistive technology tools to facilitate communication and expression.
Environmental accommodations may involve changes to the physical learning area such as a classroom. Examples can include providing sensory tools like fidget toys and noise-cancelling headphones, making seating adjustments, offering special equipment such as visual timers and specialized lighting, incorporating accessibility furniture, and making other changes to enhance the school environment.
This category includes accommodations related to keeping a student on time, and helps an individual to schedule. This may include allowing variations in task completion time, providing extended test durations, incorporating scheduled breaks, adjusting activity times throughout the day, offering graphic organizers to aid in time management, and providing flexible scheduling options to accommodate individual student needs.
These may include aspects of the above categories, but be used during test taking times instead of completing coursework. This may include providing alternative formats for tests, such as allowing students to take tests orally or providing them with a scribe. Other accommodations may involve extending test times, offering breaks during testing, providing access to specialized technology or tools, or modifying the test environment to reduce distractions.
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Frequently asked questions
Accommodation vs. Modification?
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How do I know what accommodations my student has?
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What should I do if I think my child needs accommodations?
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