Instructional Accommodations
This strategy involves presenting information in both spoken and written formats.
What are oral and written instructions?
This accommodation gives students more time to complete evaluations.
What is additional time?
This type of seating places a student in the best possible location to meet their sensory, attention, or visual needs.
What is preferential seating?
A Grade 5 student uses a graphic organizer to help plan their writing.
No - this is an accommodation, which is a support for organization, not a change to curriculum expectations.
The box on a report card is checked when curriculum expectations are changed.
What is checking the IEP box?
A visual study support often used to reinforce comprehension and retention.
What is a study guide?
Using a calculator during math assessments to support computation.
What is a calculator?
When a student works in a hallway or sensory room to reduce distractions, this environmental support is being used.
What is an alternative work location?
A Grade 7 student is working on Grade 4 reading expectations.
Yes - this is a modification as the student is working below grade-level expectations.
An IEP must be informed by a student’s current level and expectations.
What is linking to current levels?
Using _____ or concrete materials to teach math concepts.;What are manipulatives?
What are manipulatives?
A tool used by students to record answers when writing is a barrier.
What is scribing?
These devices, often worn during independent work time, reduce auditory distractions and support focus.
What are noise-cancelling headphones?
A student is given fewer science questions to answer, and they are simplified in vocabulary and concept.
Yes - this is a reduction in volume and complexity.
SMART goals are written when work is modified significantly.
What are SMART goals?
This organizational tool uses colours to help categorize information for students.
What is colour coding?
Students are allowed to choose the format of their assessment (e.g., presentation vs. test)
What is choice of assessment task?
A teacher adjusts lighting and allows movement breaks to reduce overstimulation. This is an example of what kind of support?
What is an environmental accommodation?
A student uses a calculator during math class.
No - this is an accommodation, not a curriculum change.
This framework ensures inclusive education aligned with policy.
What is the IEP Resource Guide?
Implementing small-group instruction tailored to student needs.
What is small-group instruction?
Prompting a student to return their attention to task when distracted
What are prompts to return attention?
This type of accommodation might be used to address sensory regulation, attention challenges, or anxiety in physical classroom setups.
What are environmental accommodations?
A student’s IEP includes learning expectations developed from a lower-grade Ontario curriculum strand.
Yes - using a different grade-level expectation is a modification under IEP policy.
When supports change “what” a student learns, this is required.
What is a modification?