Accommodations and Modifications

Accommodations alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject

• True

• False

Modifications are a change in the delivery, content, or instructional level of a subject

• True

• False

Accommodations offer students with LDs a way to demonstrate what they've learned. They are a ____ to assist them.

• Handicap

• Tool

When modifications are made, that student with a disability is not expected to master the same academic content as others in the classroom.

• True

• False

Limiting the expectations to a few specific learning goals is a sign of:

• modification

• accommodation

The teaching strategies for accommodations can be listed by the following categories:

• Instructional

• Environmental

• Assessment

• All three

A student receiving modifications cannot also require accommodations.

• True

• Fasle

Accommodations and Modifications are both written in the IEP

• True

• False

Equity over equality is an idea that is exclusive to students with modifications

• True

• False

Extra time for tests/assignments, scribing of answers, use of assistive technology, preferential seating, chunking of information, frequent breaks are examples of modifications

• True

• False