Response accommodation
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A response accommodation changes how a student shows what they know, such as answering orally, typing, using a scribe or pointing to choices.
Topic: Accommodations, modifications and instruction
In plain terms
Response accommodations help when the barrier is producing an answer rather than knowing it. A student who struggles to write might dictate to a scribe, use speech-to-text, type, or mark answers in the test booklet. Students who use AAC might point to choices or use a device to respond.
How it shows up in an IEP
When a goal measures a skill like handwriting or spelling, the accommodation should not replace the skill during that measurement. The IEP should say which tasks the accommodation applies to.
Example
A student with dysgraphia uses speech-to-text for social studies essays. On writing probes for the spelling goal, the student types without spellcheck so spelling can still be measured.
Related terms
- AccommodationAn accommodation changes how a student learns or shows learning, without changing what the student is expected to learn.
- Speech-to-textSpeech-to-text is technology that turns spoken words into written text, so a student can write by talking.
- Presentation accommodationA presentation accommodation changes how information is given to a student, such as reading aloud, large print, braille or visual supports.
- AAC (augmentative and alternative communication)AAC is any way of communicating that supplements or replaces speech, such as signs, picture boards or speech-generating devices.
- Testing accommodationsTesting accommodations are changes to how a test is given or answered that let a student show what they know without changing what the test measures.
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