Instruction and Support Guides

Ed Guides on Accommodations

Over 60 accommodation fact sheets including: definitions, descriptions, strategies, examples, for each Instructional, Assessment and Environmental Accommodation


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Also, take a look below at our colour accommodation infographics- same content with a flashier presentation

Ed Guide on Instructional Strategies

Simple and straightforward fact sheets for a set of commonly used and useful instructional strategies to support students with disabilities. In addition to information about each strategy, you'll find vetted links to reliable external sources when you are ready to learn even more.

Academic Guides

Virtual Manipulative Guide

Interested in using virtual manipulatives? Check out this extensive and practical guide detailing what, why, and how to incorporate these into effective math instruction for those with math difficulties. 

Science for All

Learn strategies and find resources for increasing accessibility to the scientific method for students with autism and/ or intellectual disability: https://www.addedrg.ca/science.html​

• Fact sheets with definitions, tips for support, case studies and vetted resources for additional information for general support strategies and their application to scientific lessons and activities. Covers the support topics:
  • Generalization
  • Memory
  • Daily living skills
  • Motivation
  • Communication and access
  • Sensory

Reading Comprehension Guide

See this fantastic guide on theory and context as well as evidence based practices for teaching reading comprehension for secondary students with autism

​Accommodation Infographics

Instructional

Environmental

Assessment

• Assistive Technology [Infographic] 
• Computer Options [Infographic] 
• Dramatizing Information [Infographic] 
• Contracts [Infographic] 
• Descriptive Feedback from peers [Infographic] 
• Concrete/ Hands on Materials [Infographic]
• Colour Cues [Infographic] 
• Ability Grouping [Infographic] 
• Buddy/ Peer Tutoring [Infographic] 
• Duplicated Notes [Infographic] 
• Gesture Cues [Infographic] 
• Highly Structured Approach [Infographic]
• Manipulatives [Infographic]
• More Frequent Breaks [Infographic]
• Visual Cueing [Infographic]
• Pictorial Schedule for Transitions [Infographic]
• Note-tasking Assistance [Infographic]
• Partnering [Infographic]
• Reinforcement Inventives [Infographic]
• Rewording/ Rephrasing of Information [Infographic]
• Spatially Cued Formats [Infographic]
• Taped Texts [Infographic]
• Tracking Sheets [Infographic]
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) [Infographic]
• Clustering Learning [Infographic]
• Graphic Organizers [Infographic]
• Word-retrieval Prompts [Infographic]
• Mind Maps [Infographic]
• Large-size Fonts [Infographic]

• Alternative Workspaces [Infographic]
• Minimizing Background Noise [Infographic]
• Quiet Setting [Infographic]
• Study Carrels [Infographic]
• Strategic Seating [Infographic]

• Assistive Technology [Infographic]
• Computer Options [Infographic] 
• Colour Cues [Infographic]
• More Frequent Breaks [Infographic]
• Extended Time Limits [Infographic]
• Extra Time for Processing [Infographic]
• Chunking of Assignments [Infographic]
• Prompts to Return Student's Attention to Task [Infographic]
• Verbatim Scribing [Infographic]
• Oral Response, including recorded responses [Infographic]
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) [Infographic]
• Reduction in the Number of Tasks Used to Assess a Concept of Skill [Infographic]
• Large-size Fonts [Infographic]

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