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Teaching the Exceptional Child - Accommodations Menu Sarah Kinzel April 14th, 2009

Every child is unique and learns differently. When a child has a disability that affects his or her ability to learn, the school and teachers of that student need to make accommodations to best meet the students' needs to help them achieve. By identifying students' disabilities, educators can begin to understand characteristical behaviors that may apply to that student. Accommodations, dependent upon students' individual needs, can be made to the learning environment, instructional methods, learning activities and to how a child is assessed.

This Accommodations Menu was created as a tool to help me, a high school teacher, to better understand the characteristics of and accommodations for students with:
 * Mental Retardation
 * Learning Disabilities
 * Behavior Disorders
 * Physical Disabilities
 * Visual Impairments