Discuss measures that should be taken by educators to effectively accommodate students who receive special education services.

          First of all, it is very important to know the difference between the words modification and accommodation, in order to be able to implement the right service for the disable child.

          Modification is a change, in what a teacher teaches, while accommodation is a change that will help the student to work around the disability. An example of an accommodation in my Spanish class will be take oral answers instead of written answers if the child has a disability in the writing field. This means that the child would answer the same thing than any other regular student but he will do it orally instead of writing the answer.

          It is imperative to know that these accommodations are designed to be able to help the child that receives special education service.

It has been said that special education is special designed instruction, which means to adapt the content, the way content is being taught and the strategies being used, in order to serve the special education child

          Every special education student has the right to access to the general curriculum and meet the standards that public schools apply to all children, in order to do so teachers must make appropriate accommodations and modifications to the way they teach the content of a subject. A good accommodation could be giving a child extra time to complete assignments, shorten the tests, or divide the sections of the test for different days. It would be advisable to let him work in small groups, give them copy of the notes, instead of student writing down notes, an audio tape of the lecture given by teacher, or books on CD,

Accommodations should be given not only during testing days but also during regular school days.

          These accommodations must take place in the classroom so the child with a disability can accomplish his/her goals in class, meet the unique needs and be able to understand the objective and meet the standards applied to all children in school. This has been defined by law. But who suggests these accommodations? The IEP team gets together and they are the people who decide if a student is in need of accommodations in class or during testing. They usually consider the specific strengths, challenges and student’s routines to be able to determine which accommodations and activities would be suitable for the specific child, and the help the student need to access instruction designed to meet the educational standards established by the school district and/or state.

In other words, teachers must follow the indications for accommodation on the IEP document to help that child succeed within the classroom setting and instruction. There are several types of accommodation based on the disability, some examples are:

Accommodations in presentation, in response, in setting, in scheduling and timing. Teachers are requested by the IEP team to use them in class in order to help the child receiving special education services achieve high. Accommodations are not an option, this is something that must take place in class if a child receives special education services.