Ohio Special Education Advocacy, LLC

If your child has an IEP (Individualized Education Program) or 504 plan, you may have heard the term "accommodations” from your child's IEP or 504 team.  Accommodations provide different ways for children to learn or communicate their knowledge back to the teacher.  Basically, Accommodations change how your child learns the material while maintaining the standards and expectations for a subject or test (providing your child a level playing field).  Some examples of accommodations that your child could receive include:

 

• Change in classroom

• Sign language interpreter

• Directions given in small sequential steps

• Note taking assistance

• Highlighting material

• Extended time

• Read aloud

• Questions repeated and clarified

• Assignments broken down into smaller chunks

 

Through your child's IEP (Individualized Education Program) or 504 Plan, classroom accommodations may be formally developed.

 

Children with disabilities must participate in Ohio's grade-level assessments to determine their level of content mastery, just as their peers without disabilities must participate, unless your child’s IEP Team determines that a given assessment is not appropriate for your child.

 

Recognizing that disability has its impact, IDEA permits children with disabilities to participate in large-scale assessment programs with accommodations. Those accommodations are individually determined for a given child by their IEP team.

 

Regardless if your child has an IEP or 504 plan, Ohio Special Education Advocacy understands Accommodations and what it means for a child to succeed in school.  We can work with your child's IEP team so that the school provides a level playing field for your child.