Accomodation/modification
This type of support changes how a student accesses information or demonstrates knowledge, without altering the grade-level standards or expectations.
What is an accomodation?
This type of support fundamentally changes what a student is expected to learn, often lowering the cognitive complexity or altering the grade-level curriculum.
What is a modification?
This specific cognitive domain involves the ability to temporarily hold and mentally manipulate information over short periods, which is heavily impacted in students with ADHD or working memory deficits.
What is working memory?
True or False: Providing a student with preferential seating and extra time on tests is considered Specially Designed Instruction (SDI).
What is false?
This federal law mandates that students with disabilities receive accommodations to access the general education curriculum
What is the IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)?
If a student takes a spelling test but only has to learn 10 simplified words instead of the 20 grade-level words assigned to the rest of the class, they are receiving this.
What is a modification?
Giving a student a quiet, distraction-free room or allowing them to sit at the front of the classroom falls under this accommodation category.
Often measured on IQ tests, this type of intelligence refers to a student's ability to reason, think logically, and solve novel problems in unique situations, independent of acquired knowledge.
What is fluid reasoning?
This core component of SDI refers to the "how" of teaching—the specific research-based instructional frameworks and strategies a special educator uses to teach a skill.
What is methodology?
Accommodations can be legally mandated under an IEP, or under this civil rights law framework designed for students who don't require specialized instruction.
What is a 504 Plan?
Allowing a student with dysgraphia to use speech-to-text software to write an essay is an example of this
What is an accomodation?
Rather than picking accommodations from a generic checklist, special educators should base their choices on multiple sources of this.
What is data?
A deficit in this processing domain means a student understands a concept but takes significantly longer to read, write, or respond to prompts than their peers.
What is processing speed?
When providing SDI, a teacher changes this element of instruction if they decide to teach a student a completely different, lower-level set of vocabulary words than the rest of the class.
What is content?
This legal concept dictates that students with disabilities must be educated with their non-disabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate, utilizing accommodations to make it possible.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
Providing a student with large-print text, an audio recording of a book, or a graphic organizer falls under this category.
What is presentation?
While the Special Education teacher writes or suggests the accommodations, this individual is legally responsible for implementing them daily within the standard, inclusive classroom setting.
Who is the General Education teacher?
To be identified with an Intellectual Disability (ID), a student must demonstrate deficits in both intellectual functioning and this type of everyday conceptual, social, and practical behavior.
What is adaptive behavior?
To determine if SDI is effective, special educators must conduct regular, systematic this, plotting data points against a goal line over time.
Once a student is found eligible for special education services or additional evaluations are shared, the IEP team has a maximum of this many calendar days to meet and write the initial IEP.
What is 30 days?
To protect validity, a testing accommodation must always align with the accommodations the student receives during this timeframe.
What is routine/daily classroom instruction?
Providing a student with frequent sensory breaks or allowing them time-and-a-half to finish an exam falls under this category.
What is Timing/Scheduling?
This cognitive process is responsible for the brain's "command center" functions—including emotional regulation, impulse control, planning, and task initiation.
What is executive functioning?
While accommodations remove barriers to a student's current environment, the primary ultimate goal of SDI is to explicitly teach skills so the student can achieve this over time.
When proposing a change to a student's placement or services, the district must provide parents with this specific legal document before taking action.
What is the Prior Written Notice (PWN)?