Accommodations and Modifications
Accommodation: Supports and services provided to help a student access the general education
curriculum and validly demonstrate learning.
Modification: Individualized changes made to the content and performance expectations.
Accommodations
Description
Time
Adapt the time allotted and
allowed for learning, task
completion, or testing.
Increase the amount of
personal assistance.
Level of Support
Input
Adapt the way instruction is
delivered.
Output
Adapt how the student can
respond to the instruction.
Reduced Response
Effort
Reduce complexity of the task
(ex. dictate responses rather
than write)
Adapt the extent to which a
learner is actively involved in
the task
Participation
Modification
Description
Size
Adapt the number of items the
learned is expected to master.
Difficulty
Adapt the skill level, problem
type, or rules on how the
learner can approach the work.
Adapt the goals or output
expectations.
Alternate Goals
Supplemental
Curriculum
Student Specific Plan
Student Specific Plan
Provide different instructional
materials to meet the
student’s specific goals.
Adapted, in part, from:
Deschenes, C. Ebeling, D., and Sprague, J. (1994) Adapting Curriculum and Instruction in Inclusive
Classrooms: A Teacher's Desk Reference
National Association of School Psychologist, 2000