Teaching Strategies and Modifications:
Environmental Modifications:
- Seating near the teacher
- minimized visual distractions
- More physical space for learner
Materials Adaptations:
- Peer assistance with reading
- Adult assistance with reading
- Tape recording of required readings
- Highlighted materials for reading and emphasis
- ESL materials
- Colored transparencies
Altered Assignments
- Reduced assignments
- Taped assignments
- Extra time for assignments
- Opportunity to respond orally
- Individual contracts
- Emphasis on major points
- Test analysis of assignments
Presentation of Instruction:
- Short instructions (1 or 2 steps)
- Opportunity to have instructions written
- Visual aides (Pictures, flash cards, ect.)
- Auditory Aids (Cues, tapes, music, ect.)
- Multimodal/Multisensory presentations
- Use of Varying voice volume and tonality-
Modification Instruction:
- Frequent feedback
- Immediaate feedback
- Positive-reinforcement for academic skills
- Positive reinforcement for communication skills
- Checking for understanding
Expectations for Instructional Output:
- Extra time for oral response
- Extra time for written response
- Oral instead of written response
- Illustration and labeling instead of writing
- Opportunity to create a model instead of writing
- Opportunity to dramatize instead of writing
Modifications to tests:
- Extended time for exams
- Oral exams with oral responses
- Open-book exams
- Preview to test questions
- Answer list for fill-in-the-blank exams
- Limited choices for multiple choice exams
- Dictation of answers on short essay tests
Homework Modifications:
- Reduced homework load
- Opportunity for student to dictate to parents
- Opportunity to use typewriter or computer
- Taped instructions for homework assignments
Behavior Management:
- Clearly defined limits
- Frequent reminder of rules
- In-school time out
- In-class time out
- Frequent eye contact
- Frequent breaks
- Private discussions regarding behavior
- Implementation of behavior contract
- Positive reinforcement
- Supervision during transition