Accommodations provide equitable access to grade-level curriculum for all students during instruction and assessment, including those with special needs or disabilities. Accommodations do not reduce learning expectations but rather provide equal access and opportunity without changing instructional level or content. Certain accommodations may be needed more at some grades than others depending on academic rigor. While some accommodations are appropriate for instruction, they may not be allowed for standardized assessments.

1. What are Accommodations?Accommodations are practices and procedures that provide equitable access to grade-level curriculum during instruction and assessment for all students. This includes general education students with special needs, eligible ELLs who need linguistic accommodations, as well as students with disabilities who receive special education services. Accommodations do not reduce learning expectations. Therefore, their use should not replace the teaching of subject-specific knowledge and skills as outlined in the state curriculum for each grade. Certain accommodations may be needed more often at some grades than others depending on academic content and rigor.Although some accommodations may be appropriate for instructional use, they may not be appropriate or allowed on a standardized assessment.-Texas Education Agency

2. Accommodations…are provided to students with special needs based on an ARD committee decisionare a provision made in how a student accesses or demonstrates learningdo not change instructional level or content

3. provide equal access to learning