1. Reading and IEP Students 101
Remediation, Accommodations and Modifications that work!
Sheila Zografos and Sue Corrigan
Flathead High School Special Services Dept.

2. The Myth of Average
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3. Take Aways I can identify characteristics of common disabilities
I can identify specialized instruction interventions to help a student compensate for these common disabilities.
I can state accommodations teachers can use to "level the playing field" for a student's disability.

4. Handicapping Conditions
Emotionally Disturbed
Traumatic Brain Injury
Specific Learning Disability
Cognitively Delayed
Autism
Other Health Impaired
Orthopedically Impaired
Hearing Impaired
Vision Impaired
Speech/Language Impaired
Developmental Delay
Deaf/Blindness
Multiple Disabilties

5. Accommodations
Modifications
Accommodations change how your student learns, not what he learns
There are four different types of accommodations
Your students may not have to have a special education plan to get accommodations
Modifications change what a child learns
Modifications are different from accommodations.
Only students who have IEPs or 504 plans are allowed modifications.

6. Modifications Change what or how much a student is taught
Goal is to gear curriculum to the student’s capability
The goal is to create a situation in which a student can succeed.

7. Modifications are also used to change:
How things are graded
How tests are handled
How things are taught
Homework and classwork

8. Accommodations Types Presentation Response Setting
Timing and scheduling
Accommodations are designed to give students ways to learn and demonstrate knowledge of the same material as other kids their age.
Accommodations do not lower the expectations for what students learn!

9. What can you do in the classroom?
Emotionally Disturbed
Autism
Learning Disability
Traumatic Brain Injury
Other Health Impaired
Cognitive Delay

10. Remediation
Remediation programs are usually used to build basic skills.
Most remedial programs target reading and math weaknesses.
A student doesn’t need an IEP or 504 plan to be eligible for remedial help.

11. What are Remedial Programs?
Designed to close the gap between what a student knows and what he’s expected to know.
Research-based
Teach step by step without skipping over content
Conducted at the student’s pace
Offer regular review and practice exercises to reinforce learning and practice applying new knowledge
Include a way to assess what the student has learned and whether he’s ready to move ahead.

12. Universal Design for Learning
Universal design for learning (UDL) is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. Watch the video below to get an overview of UDL.
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