Supports and Accommodations

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Supports and Accommodations in the Classroom
An Access Center Presentation to the
Information Sharing Communities A Presentation
given by Amanda Schwartz At the Council of Chief
State School Officers September 29, 2003
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• Accommodations
• allow a student to complete the same
  assignment or test as other students, but with a
  change in timing, setting, scheduling, response
  and/or presentation
• - Families and Advocates Partnership for
  Education (2001) School Accommodations and
  Modifications.

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• Supports
• Ensure that students, staff, and the classroom
  environment are organized in a way that promotes
  access to the general curriculum for children
  with disabilities.
• - IDEA Partnerships (2002)
• Discover IDEA

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• Research-Proven Practices
• Prevalence
• Green-light practices vs. yellow light practices

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• Strategies to Improve
• Access to the General Education
• Information Chart

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• What does Research-Proven mean?
• rigorous and systematic
• objective
• empirical
• strong research design and follows an
  experimental or quasi-experimental design
• reliable data
• valid data
• rigorous data analyses
• peer-reviewed  
• No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Pub. L. No.
  107-110,Sec.9109 (37). (2002)

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  Center Improving Outcomes for All Students K-8,
  funded by U. S. Department of Education, Office
  of Special Education Programs and housed at the
  American Institutes for Research. Retrieved
  today's date, from the World Wide Web
  http//www.k8accesscenter.org