Lesson 4 Accommodations: Health Impairments
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
AccessSTEM
Lesson 4 Accommodations: Hearing
Provide a sign language interpreter, real-time captioning, and/or an FM system.
Provide access to an open- or closed-captioned film.
Face students with hearing impairments so that they can see your lips. Speak clearly. Repeat questions or comments from others.
Allow flexible seating to provide a clear view of a sign language interpreter, lip reading, visual aids, and demonstrations.
Lesson 4 Accommodations: Learning Disabilities
A computer with voice output software is an appropriate accommodation for students with learning disabilities. Consult the video presentation and publication Working Together: Computers and People with Learning Disabilities and the AccessSTEM Knowledge Base.
Consider reformatting documents to minimize clutter and/or providing materials in large-print format. Ask the student if this would be helpful.
Lesson 4 Accommodations: Low Vision
Consider the position, lighting, and seating needs of the student during presentations or when using text, manipulatives, transparencies or other projected images.
Provide large-print lecture notes, handouts, and worksheets.
Provide large-print lab signs and equipment labels.
Lesson 4 Accommodations: Mobility Impairments
Assure that classrooms and labs are in wheelchair-accessible locations.
Use an adjustable table, and locate lab equipment within reach.
Lesson 4 Accommodations: Psychosocial Impairments
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Warm Up and Sharing Circle
Low Vision
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
Blindness
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
Experimental Protocol
Low Vision
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Consider the position, lighting, and seating needs of the student during presentations or when using text, manipulatives, transparencies or other projected images.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
Consider having the student work with a partner and providing extra assistance if this activity presents significant challenges.
Investigation 5.1: Blade Design
Disability Type
- Low Vision
- Blindness
- Hearing Impairments
- Learning Disabilities
- Mobility Impairments
- Health Impairments
- Psychosocial Impairments
Low Vision
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Investigation 5.2: Hypotheses, Testing and Observations
Low Vision
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Consider the position, lighting, and seating needs of the student during presentations or when using text, manipulatives, transparencies or other projected images.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
Blindness
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.