What is an accommodation?
Accommodations are practices and procedures in the areas of presentation, response, setting, and timing/scheduling that provide equitable access during instruction and assessments for students with disabilities without invalidating the construct.
Accommodations are intended to reduce the effects of a student’s disability by giving the student access to the content or assessment; they do not, however, reduce learning expectations. The accommodations provided to a student may be the same for classroom instruction, classroom assessments, and district and state assessments.
What accommodations is my student allowed to use with the K12 Curriculum?
They are allowed to use any accommodations that they need to be successful. Please view the Elluminate Session on the K12 Curriculum and Accommodations: http://tinyurl.com/6nltlz
Another aspect of the Barton Program is teaching families how to make accommodations while using the K12 Curriculum, which, often helps them stay at grade level. The accommodations include scribe, oral presentation, reduced work, etc. He should be at a level that he can do conceptually. None of my kids will do the K12 Phonics or Spelling. Grammar can be difficult, if they can’t read well. I tell them to go over the lessons, but not for the goal of mastery for some, but rather, for the goal of becoming familiar with the terminology. You are welcome to watch my session on accommodations. It is one the attached document.
A lot of my kids have problems with math because of directionality issues and memory. We really encourage the use of a calculator or math fact table. As you know, they often need to be explained something in a different way to get it. I did a few xCEL Sessions in math that might be helpful. See attached document.
What accommodations may my student use with Scantron?
- Teacher read directions for reading (The learning coach may read the directions, but you they may not read the questions or the passages. They need to read these on their own. )
- Oral Presentation for math (The learning coach may read all the questions and answers, but you they may not elaborate at all on the test.)
- Students can draw their own math fact tables and use them during the test, but they may not use calculators.
To learn how to draw a math fact table, please view the following Elluminate Session: http://tinyurl.com/5nzt2k
What accommodations will my student have access to for the CSAP?
If your student is using these accommodations on a regular basis during instruction and assessment and these accommodations are documented for the designated amount of time by your teacher, your student may have access to the following accommodations during CSAP:
o Extended Time or different setting
o Oral presentation of the test
o Teacher read directions
o Scribe
o Assistive technology
*You will receive more information about this from your teacher
What accommodations can my student use for the writing sample?
o The student may use a scribe.
o The student may type the assignment.
o The student will not be graded on spelling or punctuation.
