Accommodations and Modifications

Accommodations

Physical Environment: 

• Arrange the classroom to facilitate mobility to all areas and activities for students using a wheelchair or crutches
• Preferential seating
• Make sure there is adequate storage space for student’s aids and equipment
• Have a desk with open storage space for the students

Instructional Activities

• Tape the student’s paper to their desk
• Attach their pencil to the desk with a piece of string and masking tape for easy retrieval, pencil grips
• Assign a student to deliver and collect appropriate papers for the student
• Allow students to answer questions orally
• Provide the student with lecture notes

Modifications

• quizzing a student orally
• allow extra time for the student to write answers
• allowing a student to use assistive technology to answer questions
• allowing a student to use assistive technology to take test 
• teachers may need to limit the amount of homework assigned to students with cerebral palsy
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Assistive Technology
A child with CP can face many challenges in school and is likely to need individualized help. In addition to therapy services and special equipment, children with CP may need what is known as assistive technology. Examples of assistive technology include:

• Communication devices, which can range from the simple to the sophisticated.   Communication boards, for example, have pictures, symbols, letters, or words attached. The child communicates by pointing to or gazing at the pictures or symbols. Augmentative communication devices are more sophisticated and include voice synthesizers that enable the child to “talk” with others.
• Computer technology, which can range from electronic toys with special switches to sophisticated computer programs operated by simple switch pads or keyboard adaptations.

http://cerebralpalsy.org/information/assistive-technology/accommodation/