Accommodations for Learning

• Accommodations include individualized teaching and assessment strategies, human supports, and/or individualized equipment

• In a subject or course identified in the student’s IEP as “Accommodated Only”, the provincial curriculum expectations are not altered

• Assessment accommodations are changes in procedures that enable the student to demonstrate his or her learning

These may include:

• visual supports to clarify verbal instructions

• assistive devices

• some form of human support

• alternative methods for the student to demonstrate his or her achievement of expectations (e.g., allowing the student to take tests orally)

• the allowance of extra time to complete an assessment

• alternative settings that may be more suitable for the student to demonstrate his or her learning

Accommodations offered at InnovOak School include the following:

• an individual or small-group setting or an individual study carrel

• use of assistive technology (e.g. Google Read Write)

• preferential seating within the regular classroom

• prompts for students with severe attention problems who are off-task for significant periods of time

• additional time for testing, to a maximum of one-and-one-half the allotted time

• large-print, assistive technology for the hearing impaired