Accommodations and Modifications
Accommodations and Modifications
Accommodations and Modifications
Accommodation Central
Accommodations Region 13
Modifications vs Accommodations
and Modifications
ACCOMMODATIONS MODIFCATIONS
• Allows student access to the general • Adjustment to an assignment or a test that
education curriculum. changes the standard, changes what the
• Allows student to complete equal test or assignment is supposed to measure,
assignments/tests. or in any way reduces what the student is
• Are changes in timing, format, schedule, learning or being assessed on.
response/presentation, or setting. • Examples of possible modifications include:
• Do not significantly alter what the o a student completing work on part of
assignment or test measures. a standard
• Examples: Braille text; FM Audio System; o a student completing an alternate
testing in a quiet room; chunking material; assignment that is easier (not
grading partial assignments; extending different)
time; o a student having less vocabulary or
spelling words
o a student learning less dates or
people in history
o a student writing a one paragraph
Considerations when deciding what to paper when everyone else is writing
use: a 5-paragraph paper
• Size: Adapt the number of items that the • Output: Adapt how the student can respond
learner is expected to learn or complete. to instruction or assignment.
• Time: Adapt time allotted and allowed for • Participation: Adapt the extent a learner is
learning, task completion, or testing. actively involved in the task.
Provide visual timers. • Alternate Goals: Adapted goal or outcome
• Level of Support: Increased amount of while using the same materials. When
personal assistance to keep the student on routinely utilized, this may be more of a
task, reinforce or prompt use of specific modification for more severe disabilities.
skills. Enhanced adult-student • Substitute Goals: Provide different
relationships; use physical space and instruction and materials to meet an
environmental structure. individual’s learner IEP goals.
• Input: Adapt the way instruction is delivered
to the learner.
• Difficulty: Adapt the skill level, problem
type, or the rules on how the learner may
approach the work.