Tag » accommodations

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  Improving Education: The Promise of Inclusive Schooling

  1/28/07 - Dianne L. Ferguson, Audrey Desjarlais, Gwen Meyer, Equity Alliance at ASU

  The purpose of education is to ensure that every student gains access to knowledge, skills, and information that will prepare them to contribute to America’s communities and workplaces. This central purpose is made more challenging as schools must accommodate students with ever more diverse backgrounds, abilities, and interests. For students with disabilities, achieving this common purpose means thinking again about the consequences of special and general education as separate systems, and...

• Learning Academies: Module 4, Universal Designs for Learning

  1/1/04 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement,

  The concept of Universal Design foregrounds equitable opportunities and access to spaces, information and participation for all by creating environments and products that accommodate as many individuals as possible from the beginning. Universal Designs for Learning (UDL) extends Universal Design into the field of education. While initially defined as a method to minimize barriers students may experience when learning new concepts, this professional learning module presents UDL as an approach...

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  Preparing Teachers for the Future

  1/5/09 - Diane L. Ferguson, Equity Alliance at ASU

  As American schools seek to accommodate an increasing range of students, teachers are challenged as never before. When students with disabilities, linguistic differences or other unique abilities join general education classrooms, even willing teachers fear their lack of training and preparation to deal with such differences make their role as primary teacher inappropriate and inadequate.

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  School Accommodations and Modifications

  1/10/09 - Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers,

  Below are examples of modifications and/or accommodations. These ideas may be helpful when educating students with disabilities. Keep in mind that any accommodation or modification an IEP team or Section 504 team chooses must be based on individual needs. Accommodations or modifications must be provided if written in the child’s IEP or 504 plan.

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  A summary of research on the effects of test accommodations: 2002 through 2004

  1/3/09 - Johnstone, C., Altman, J., Thurlow, M., Thompson, S. J.

  The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) requires the reporting of participation in assessments overall and by subgroup, including students with disabilities. As states and school districts strive to meet the goals for adequate yearly progress required by NCLB, the use of individual accommodations continues to be scrutinized for effectiveness, threats to test validity, and score comparability. This report summarizes 49 empirical research studies completed on test accommodations between...

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  A summary of research on the effects of test accommodations: 2005 through 2006

  1/14/09 - Zenisky, A., Sireci, S.

  A report summarizing test accommodations research published from 2005-2006, covering 32 published research studies. It identifies promising directions in research and provides suggestions for future studies.

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  Access to the General Education Curriculum for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities

  1/14/09 - The Access Center,

  This brief explores the linkages between alternate state standards, alternate assessment, the IEP, and classroom instruction and assessment as the process of providing access to the general education curriculum for students with significant cognitive disabilities

• Accommodation without assimilation.

  1/1/88 - Gibson, M.

• Adaptive instruction: An alternative for accommodating student diversity through the curriculum.

  1/1/69 - Wang, M. C. , D. K. Lipsky & A. Garner
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  Assessment of Deafblind Access to Manual Language Systems (ADAMLS)

  1/5/09 - Robbie Blaha, Brad Carlson

  The Assessment of Deafblind Access to Manual Language Systems (ADAMLS) is a resource for educational teams who are responsible for developing appropriate adaptations and strategies for children who are deafblind and who are candidates for learning manual language systems. Includes strategies for organizing the assessment process, assessment questions with considerations for adaptations, and summary results.

• Beyond "getting the answer": Calculators help learning disabled students get the concepts

  1/1/07 - Center for Implementing Technology in Education,

  This Info Brief summarizes Thompson and Sproule's (2000) "Calculator Decision-Making Flow Chart" and uses the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to clarify how calculator usage helps students with learning disabilities understand math concepts.

• Blogs, wikis and text messaging: What are the implications for students with learning disabilities

  1/1/08 - Center for Implementing Technology in Education,

  The usefulness of assistive technologies for students with learning disabilities is fairly obvious. It is easy to understand the educational benefits of software designed specifically for students with dyslexia. But what about Web 2.0 tools? What are they and how do they affect learning and interaction for students with learning disabilities?

• Boosting inclusion in after school activities with AT and supplemental services

  1/1/06 - National Center for Technology Innovation,

  NCTI has suggestions for how assistive and accessible technologies and other supplemental services can help make activities more inclusive for students with special needs.

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  Demystifying hearing assistance technology: A guide for service providers and consumers

  1/5/09 - Davis, C., Atcherson, S., Johnson, M.

  This book focuses on the access needs of individuals who are hard of hearing or deaf who rely on aural/oral and/or print communication and not sign language. It covers information on hearing aids, audiograms, cochlear implants and other auditory implantable devices, the definition of communication access, assistive listening devices, speech-to-text accommodations, alerting devices, and telecommunication options. In addition, there is an extensive resource section with additional information...

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  Educational Technology in Public School Districts: Fall 2008, First Look

  1/16/09 - Lucinda Gray, Laurie Lewis

  "This report provides national data on the availability and use of educational technology in public school districts during fall 2008. The data are the results of a national district-level survey that is one of a set that includes district, school, and teacher surveys on educational technology. Every year between 1994 and 2005 (with the exception of 2004), the Office of Educational Technology (OET) in the U.S. Department of Education asked the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES...

• Family responses to children with early developmental delays II: Accommodation, intensity, and activity in early and middle childhood.

  1/1/96 - Gallimore, R., Coots, J., Weisner, T., Garnier, H., & Guthrie, D.