Computer-Based Bundled Accommodations for Secondary Students With Mild Intellectual or Physical Challenges

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Abstract

To investigate the effectiveness of accommodation practices for students with intellectual or physical challenges, the present study compared the probability that the secondary accommodated students- if they received assistive technology, computer, and various bundled accommodations for the provincial math and literacy assessments in Ontario, Canada- would acquire levels of academic achievement comparable to non-accommodated counterparts. A total of 217 and 73 bundled packages for students with intellectual or physical disabilities were examined in the present study. We found that accommodations that involved computer and/or assistive technology were more beneficial for writing the literacy, rather than the math assessment, for accommodated students with intellectual disabilities. Moreover, students with physical challenges did not benefit from computer-based accommodations for both math and literacy.

Authors

• Pei-Ying Lin, University of Saskatchewan

• Yu-Cheng Lin, University of Texas- Rio Grande Valley