Providing tailored accommodations for students can significantly enhance their learning experience. Breaking down new skills into smaller, manageable steps can foster better self-regulation and adaptive strategy use.
Benefit: Encourages students to choose and try
adaptive strategies to support their learning
Benefit: Varies the level of novelty or risk
Minimize distractions,
Provide quiet seating
Recruiting interest: 7.3
Benefit: Reducing the level of
sensory stimulation can support
learning and promote a safe, inclusive
environment for students
Prioritize tasks for completion
Executive Functions: 6.2, 6.3
Benefit: Scaffolds organizational strategies and encourages students to implement them independently. Supports students with working memory needs by chunking and organizing key tasks to be completed.
Sustaining effort and persistence: 8.1
Benefit: Helps to sustain effort and concentration when faced
with distractions. Encourages students to devise long-term goals into short-term objectives. Organizes tasks to be completed.
Recruiting interest: 7.2, 7.3
Benefit: Highlights utility and relevance of tasks to students
Benefit: Providing students with access to tools and assistive
technologies helps ensure all students reach the goal of full participation in the classroom.
Benefit: Allows all students to develop a
wider range of expression. Supports composition.
Perception: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Benefit: Increases perceptual clarity and significance.
Verbatim scribing
Expression and Communication: 5.1, 5.2
Benefit: Helps students develop a wider range
of expression and provides flexibility for learners
to express what they know
Perception: 1.3
Benefit: Providing non-visual alternatives ensures all students have access to information
