Choosing and Using Accomodations: IEP Team considerations

Deciding how to support children with disabilities is not easy. To assist you, Special Connection at the University of Kansas has designed a set of questions designed to serve as a tool to help the IEP team discuss and determine what accommodations a student needs in the classroom or in assessment.

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Questions to consider:

• What kinds of instructional strategies (e.g., visual, tactile, auditory, combination) work best for the student?
• What accommodations increase the student's access to instruction and assessment?
• What accommodations has the student tried in the past?
• What has worked well and in what situations?
• What does the student prefer?
• Are there ways to improve the student's use of the accommodation?
• Does the student still need the accommodation?
• Are there ways the student can use preferred accommodations outside of school (e.g., at home, on the job, in the community)?
• Are preferred accommodations allowed on state and district assessments of accountability?
• How can the student learn to request preferred accommodations (e.g., self-advocacy)?
• Are there opportunities for the student to use preferred accommodations

Reprinted from the March, 2008 Family Voices of Oklahoma newsletter. To subscribe, visit their website at www.okvoices.org