Suggested Possible Student Accommodations

(to help your child succeed)   

    Area / Pacing Behavior

• Extra time for oral responses, organize thoughts
• Provide social coaching if doesn’t read social clues
• Adjust time for completion of assignments
• Provide supervision during transition activities
• Modify class/student schedule(s)
• Modify/omit assignments requiring copying
• Cut work into smaller segments, give one at a time
• Use activity as reward
• Allow breaks  
• Allow standing during seat work, especially at end of task
• Use self-monitoring devices (timers, buzzer)
• Encourage active responding: talking, moving, board work, writing, painting
• Alternate work periods with frequent breaks
• Allow legitimate activity

    Environment / Attention

• Reduce/minimize distractions (doors, windows, etc.)
• Monitor and redirect student to task
• Use preferential seating
• Establish secret signal to cue or redirect student
• Seat close to board, screen, TV monitor
• Use frequent eye contact or proximity control
• Provide study carrel for independent work
• Seat up front to keep others out of view

    Directions  / Assignments

• Get attention before giving directions
• Individualize or modify homework
• Use clear and concise directions, repeat lower reading level of assignments
• Give directions in small segments
• Adjust length of assignment or allow extra time
• Have student repeat directions to teacher/peer
• Allow oral vs. written answers; drawings, etc.
• Provide written steps for directions
• Peer takes notes (on NCR paper or Xerox)
• Give directions in a variety of ways
• Allow use of word processor for written work
• Review assignments & timelines at end of day
• Pair students to check work
• Assign homework/study buddy

    Organization

• Provide organizer: study guides, outlines
• Progress reports to home, monitor progress
• Go for quality vs. quantity
• Organize desk, papers, textbooks, etc. by color
• Allow student extra set of books at home
• Help organize student’s desk, notebooks, etc.
• Inform students how grading will occur
• Pass/fail contract, modified grading scales

    Materials

• Provide visual aids (pictures, flash cards, maps,...)
• Credit for projects, presentation, demos…
• Mark correct answers, not mistakes or writing

• Provide auditory aides (cues, tapes, …)
• Accept late work for credit rather than none
• Use instructional aids (hands-on, manipulatives…)
• Use largest font on printed materials and tests
• Adjust reading level of materials, modify texts
• Give test orally; dictate/answer on tape
• Use color-coding for emphasis (chalk, charts…)
• Use objective testing techniques:
• Use highlighted or underlined reading materials - choices for multiple choice
• Provide materials w/main idea highlighted - provide word bank for fill-in-the-blank
• Use books on tape - items per matching section
• Use primary pencils or pencil grips
• Use reduced reading level, give reading assistance
• Reduce number of essay questions

 11/06

Developed By:  Marian Nelson, Nov. 2006, PCSD  

This site was created and intended for educational use only. Last update:  Nov .10, 2006.