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Adaptations & Accommodations for Students with Disabilities

Videos

Accommodating individual learning styles. (1991). Fairfield, CT: Queue, Inc. Running Time: 17 minutes.

The first part of this video addresses the need to provide learning activities that utilize both sides of the brain and reviews the differences in both hemispheres that affect classroom teaching and learning. The video also refers to several inventories that teachers may administer to students to assess their preferred learning style. The second section of the tape presents adaptations for learners whose preferred learning style is auditory, visual, and haptic for completing a book report, learning a list of spelling words, and completing a science lesson on the solar system. The tape concludes with a challenge for teachers to engage the verbal and visual sides of the brain to increase the likelihood that students will view, hear, speak and do instructional activities in the classroom in meaningful ways that result in effective learning.

Accommodations: Making the instruction and assessment connection. (2000). Alexandria, VA: National Association of State Directors of Special Education. Running Time: 90 minutes.

This videotape highlights practical decisions and uses of accommodations, focusing specifically on accommodations in instruction, classroom tests, and state and school district assessments.

Technology in today's classroom video series. Skip Stahl on technology and students with special needs. (1998). Santa Monica, CA: Canter & Associates. Running time: 1 hour, 5 minutes.

This video "focuses on the adaptation of electronic media to build flexible access and learning supports into mainstream curricula" and "shows teachers how they can adapt their curriculum to meet a wide range of student needs using technology." There are two programs within the video: One, Meeting the Special Needs of Students through Technology; and Two, Applications for Meeting Special Needs. The accompanying Leader's Manual includes detailed instructions for previewing, viewing, and summarizing the programs. Each program includes objectives, group discussion questions, group activities, and classroom application activities for use after viewing the programs.

Throughout the video, examples are provided for adapting the curriculum using assistive technology and technology that adapts the curriculum. The video portrays the materials being implemented in elementary, middle, and senior high schools. (47 pages; Leader's Manual; resources for using technology to meet special needs)

List of Publishers

Obtaining Journal Articles That Interest You

Journal articles may be available at a local university or college, local library, or a local professional teachers' library, if the journal in question is part of that institution's collection. If not, you will need to contact the journal publisher directly to inquire about their duplication policies. Some publishers handle this activity themselves; others arrange to have their journal articles distributed through either Bell & Howell Information and Learning (formerly known as University Microfilms International, or UMI) or the Copyright Clearance Center. For your convenience, both of these institutions are listed below.

Allyn & Bacon
Order Processing Center
P.O. Box 11071
Des Moines, IA 50336-1071
(800) 947-7700
www.abacon.com

Bell & Howell Information and Learning (formerly University Microfilms International, or UMI)
300. N. Zeeb Road
P.O. Box 1346
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346
(800) 521-0600 x2873
core_service@umi.com
www.lib.umi.com/sim/

Brookline Books
P.O. Box 38147
Cambridge, MA 02238-1047
(800) 666-2665
brooklinebks@delphi.com
www.brooklinebooks.com

Canter and Associates
P.O. Box 66926
Los Angeles, CA 90066-0926
(800) 262-4347; (310) 395-3221
www.canter.net

Center for Applied Research in Education
c/o Pearson Education
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
(800) 922-0579
www.pearsoned.com

Center for Disability Information and Referral
Indiana Institute on Disability and Community
Attn: Publications Department
2853 East Tenth Street
Bloomington, IN 47408-2696
(812) 855-6508
(812) 855-9396 (TTY)
www.iidc.indiana.edu/~cedir

Center for Education and Lifelong Learning, see Center for Disability Information and Referral.

Copyright Clearance Center
222 Rosewood Drive
Danvers, MA 01923
(978) 750-8400
info@copyright.com
www.copyright.com

Corwin Press, Inc.
2455 Teller Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91320
(805) 499-0721
order@corwin.sagepub.com
www.sagepub.com

Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
1110 North Glebe Road, Suite 300
Arlington, VA 22201-5704
(888) 232-7733
(703) 264-9446 (TTY)
cec@cec.sped.org
www.cec.sped.org

Covington Cove Publications
5620 Covington Road
Shorewood, MN 55331
(952) 470-0297

Free Spirit Publishing
217 Fifth Avenue North, Suite 200
Minneapolis, MN 55401-1299
(800) 735-7323 (for orders); (612) 338-2068
help4kids@freespirit.com
www.freespirit.com

Inclusion Notebook (published 4 times per year)
Pennycorner Press
Post Box 8
Gilman, CT 06336
(860) 873-3545
tin@pennycorner.com
www.pennycorner.com/TIN.html

Love Publishing
9101 East Kenyon Avenue, Suite 2200
Denver, CO 80237
(303) 221-7333
lovepublishing@compuserve.com
www.lovepublishing.com

LRP Publications
747 Dresher Road
P.O. Box 980
Horsham, PA 19044-0980
(800) 341-7874; (215) 784-0860
www.lrp.com

Master Teacher
Leadership Lane
P.O. Box 1207
Manhattan, KS 66505-1207
(800) 669-9633
www.masterteacher.com/index.html

Merrill, contact Allyn & Bacon.

National Association of State Directors of Special Education
1800 Diagonal Road, Suite 320
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 519-3800
www.nasdse.org

Paul H. Brookes
P.O. Box 10624
Baltimore, MD 21285-0624
(800) 638-3775
custserv@brookespublishing.com
www.brookespublishing.com

Peytral Publications
P.O. Box 1162
Minnetonka, MN 55345
(877) 739-8725; (952) 949-8707
www.peytral.com

Pro-Ed, Inc.
8700 Shoal Creek Boulevard
Austin, TX 78757-6897
(800) 897-3202; (512) 451-3246
www.proedinc.com

Queue, Inc.
c/o Instructivision
3 Regent Street, Suite 306
Livingston, NJ 07039
(973) 992-9081

NICHCY’s Resources You Can Use is published several times a year in response to questions from individuals and organizations. For further information and assistance, or to receive a NICHCY Publications Catalog, contact NICHCY, P.O. Box 1492, Washington, DC 20013. Telephone: 1-800-695-0285 (Voice/TTY) and (202) 884-8200 (Voice/TTY). Visit us at our Web site (www.nichcy.org) or e-mail us at nichcy@aed.org.

NICHCY thanks Dr. Peggy Cvach, our Project Officer at the Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education. We also would like to express our deep appreciation to Dr. Jane Williams for her thorough and thoughtful compilation of this resource list.

Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    Suzanne Ripley
Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Lisa Küpper
Author. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jane M. Williams, Ph.D., University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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