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| Accommodations for Students with LD |
 • Setting:
o Provide preferential seating
o Provide special lighting or acoustics
o Provide a space with minimal distractions
o Administer a test in small group setting
o Administer a test in private room or alternative test site• Test Scheduling
o Administer a test in several timed sessions or over several days
o Allow subtests to be taken in a different order
o Administer a test at a specific time of day
• Other
o Provide special test preparation
o Provide on-task/focusing prompts
o Provide any reasonable accommodation that a student needs that does not fit under the existing categories
Should accommodations influence grading assignments?
School assignments and tests completed by a child with accommodations should be graded the same way as those completed by pupil without accommodations. After all, accommodations are meant to “level the playing field”, provide equal and ready access to the task at hand, and not meant to provide an inopportune benefit to the user.
Accommodations don't help
Choosing and monitoring the efficacy of accommodations should be an ongoing process, and changes (with students, parents and educators included) should be made as often as needed. The key is to make sure that chosen accommodations address students' specific areas of need and help to show their skill and knowledge.
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