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What is Accommodation
1.
a modification of a standard procedure so as to allow an individual with a disability to perform that activity competently.
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2.
Something supplied for convenience or to satisfy a need (Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, 2009)
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3.
An alteration of course materials to allow a person with a disability equal access.
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4.
A behavioral response to worldview threat that involves adopting or absorbing some aspect of the threat in order to mitigate the threat itself.
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5.
Alters the way a student learns or is assessed.
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6.
A change in the process through which the student reaches a goal; often involves some sort of tool or scaffold.
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7.
Altering the presentation, response, setting, schedule, or timing of an assessment to meet the needs of an individual learner without altering content.
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8.
Modification of existing cognitive structures when encountering a new task or stimulus. It is the process of developing new structures, categories or subsystems when faced with a new situation. The established knowledge structures or behaviors remain but are differentiated by introduction of new subsystem.
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9.
The act of comprehending new experiences by integrating old schema into a new object.
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10.
The modifications in communicative behavior made by individuals during interaction.
Accommodation
may include changes to verbal, vocal and non-verbal behaviors. The process of
accommodation
may occur as an intentional communicative strategy or may occur without the conscious awareness of the individual; it is motivated by the desire to be liked.
Accommodation
can be manifest as convergence (adopting the communicative behavior of another) or divergence (behaving stylistically different from another to maintain our differences).
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11.
A settlement or compromise.
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12.
A specific change that allows an individual with a learning challenge to enjoy equal access to educational opportunities.
Accommodation
s are usually provided reactively, in response to requests from students via campus units, such as disability-services offices, who act as advocates.
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13.
Compliance to specialized disability legislation that provides for alterations.
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14.
The adjustment of the eye to keep things in focus on the retina as the distance changes.
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15.
The process in which the eye changes optical power to maintain focus on an object at varying distances. This is measured in diopters and decreases predictably with age.
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16.
A change to the environment or curriculum without changing the objective.
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17.
An adjustment made or service provided so that an individual with a disability can access a physical environment, activity, or service. Examples include sign language interpreters, materials printed in Braille, and extra time on exams.
Learn more in: Universal Design of Distance and Online Learning
18.
A modification to the delivery of course content, method of collecting student performance data, or architecture and furnishing of a learning space.
Learn more in: Untangling Literacies: Accessible Digital Slides and Syllabi in the Graduate Classroom
19.
A practice or procedure that provides a student with equitable access to content and is intended to reduce or eliminate the effects of a disability, without lowering academic or behavioral expectations.
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