Assessment

Students with sensory disabilities may require accommodations to access the Utah Core Curriculum. Accommodations are provided for classroom instruction and for assessment. Before an accommodation can be used on the assessment, there are two prerequisites.

1. The accommodation must be listed in the IEP
2. The accommodation must be implemented for instruction and assessment activities throughout the entire school year.

Detailed guidance for using accommodations can be found in the USOE Special Needs Accommodations Policy document, which is updated annually. See links on this webpage to download a pdf copy.

There are essentially four types of accommodations for instruction and assessment.

• Presentation accommodations allow students to access information in ways that do not require them to visually read standard print. These alternate modes of access are auditory, multi-sensory, tactile, and visual.
• Response accommodations allow students to complete activities, assignments, and assessments in different ways or to solve or organize problems using some type of assistive device or organizer. 
• Setting accommodations change the location in which a test or assignment is given or the conditions of the assessment setting.
• Timing and scheduling accommodations increase the allowable length of time to complete an assessment or assignment and perhaps change the way the time is organized.