Let's Talk Accommodations

School and classroom accommodations, that is. Considering that this is the beginning of the school year, many parents are still in IEP mode… attempting to get their child’s IEP’s set up for the year, and figuring out how the teacher and support staff will implement that IEP. From a homeschooling standpoint, parents just

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Writing accommodations

This isn’t a post where I know what I’m talking about. I have questions for those of you working with or living with special needs kids who simply cannot write out their work reliably.

When do you start looking seriously at making an accommodation for writing?

What type of keyboard/computer/word

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Spelling… oral versus written

Well, the first two weeks of school went pretty well. Last week Mrs. R had the kids reviewing and quizzing on the 100 most frequently used words. This was 25 words per day, for four days. They were supposed to “write each missed word five times” for homework.

D1 didn’t BRING

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