What is Accommodation

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a modification of a standard procedure so as to allow an individual with a disability to perform that activity competently. Learn more in: Trends and Challenges in Serving Students with Disabilities in Post-Secondary Education

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Something supplied for convenience or to satisfy a need (Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, 2009) Learn more in: Web Accessibility Policy for Students with Disabilities in U.S. Postsecondary Distance Education

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An alteration of course materials to allow a person with a disability equal access. Learn more in: Meeting the Needs of Students With Disabilities in Online Learning Environments

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A behavioral response to worldview threat that involves adopting or absorbing some aspect of the threat in order to mitigate the threat itself. Learn more in: Death Reminders: Teaching About School Shootings in Social Studies

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A change in the process through which the student reaches a goal; often involves some sort of tool or scaffold. Learn more in: Effective and Efficient Practices for Successful Inclusion in Public School Settings

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Altering the presentation, response, setting, schedule, or timing of an assessment to meet the needs of an individual learner without altering content. Learn more in: Assessment in Inclusive Settings

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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. Learn more in: Challenges of Training Motor Vehicle Mechanics for Changing World Contexts and Emergent Working Conditions: Cases of Kenya and Australia

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The act of comprehending new experiences by integrating old schema into a new object. Learn more in: Piaget's Developmental Stages

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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). Learn more in: Audience Replies to Character Blogs as Parasocial Relationships

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A settlement or compromise. Learn more in: Balancing Interests: The Implications of Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty

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A specific change that allows an individual with a learning challenge to enjoy equal access to educational opportunities. Accommodations are usually provided reactively, in response to requests from students via campus units, such as disability-services offices, who act as advocates. Learn more in: Improve the Flipped Classroom with Universal Design for Learning

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Compliance to specialized disability legislation that provides for alterations. Learn more in: Digital Juncture: A Model for Social Work Ethics and Practice

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A change to the environment or curriculum without changing the objective. Learn more in: Differentiating Instruction in the Forensics Classroom

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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

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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

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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. Learn more in: Implementing Universal Design for Learning in the Virtual Learning Environment