Accommodations VS Modifications

What is an accommodation?

• Changes in the delivery, content, or curricular expectations of a specific subject to meet the needs of a student.

• Various assessment methods used to determine student learning.

• A change in environment, curriculum, or equipment that allows a student to gain access to content and complete assigned tasks.

What is the modification?

• An adjustment in a student's learning environment.

• Tailoring instruction to meet the individual needs.

• Changing an assignment of objective to make it easier or more difficult for a student.

Is there a connection to accommodations and modifications?

• They are different practices

• They are the same practices

• They are ways that students get exempted of doing their work.

Molly is receiving hints to answers on a quiz.

• A modification

• An accommodation

In 10th grade, English class Bobby is required to write a 3-5 sentence paragraph instead of a 5 paragraph essay.

• Accommodation

• Modification

Adjusting the amount of time, thinking about what individual students need from each other are examples of which differentiation subcategory?

• High Quality Curriculum

• Assessment

• Flexible Grouping

Modified is the term used on the IEP to identify subjects in which the student requires expectations that differ in some ways from the regular grade expectations.

• False

• True

The following accommodations: using a weighted lap pad, chewing gum, using a fidget spinner and using blank pages to cover all but one question on a worksheet would best help a student with:

• ADHD

• Auditory Processing Disorder

• Sensory Processing Issues

• Dyslexia

Why accommodations are required?

• Offer a way for students with an exceptionality to demonstrate what they have learned.

• Change the expectations for each student depending on their learning style.

• Change the curriculum to make it easier if it is too difficult.

• Ensuring that all students are instructed in a regular, integrated classroom.

Tony's score on in-class assignments and assessments improves when he is provided with large print material. The teacher provides materials with large print because she observed that his comprehension greatly improves.

• Accommodations

• Modifications