IEP Accommodations and Modifications

Accommodations and Modifications: Help your child access general curriculum

Accommodations are changes in the presentation of classroom content, maintaining the same general curriculum material taught to typical students in a class, while making information more accessible to a student with special needs. Accommodations are provided to allow a child to participate in typical learning activities, while circumventing weaknesses. This provides your child with a relatively equal education. Since IDEA's goal is for every child to participate in general curriculum learning as much as possible, accommodations should be considered before modifications.

If a child is unable to understand general curriculum content, then they should be taught at the highest level possible. Teaching which does not cover the general curriculum is "modified content" where changes made for the child may be referred to a modification. Having curriculum modified can have long-term knowledge consequences for a child because the child's education is being changed and is no longer equivalent to peers'; the child may never regain lost knowledge. Modifications should only be made when absolutely necessary.

Accommodations and Modifications vary widely. Some examples have been provided to give you a clear idea of the difference between the two.

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