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Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to many of the questions we receive from parents, educators, health care professionals and others. If you don't find your question here, call us!

Junior/Senior High School

4. How specific an accommodation can I request in my child's IEP?

Accommodations in the classroom, used on a day-to-day basis, can include:

• Taped textbooks available through Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
• Extended time on tests
• Tutoring
• Use of a note taker, for students who have trouble listening in class and taking notes
• Use of a scribe during test taking, for students who have trouble writing but who can express their answers verbally to the scribe, who writes down the responses
• Use of a reader during test taking, for students who have trouble reading test questions
• Tape recording of class lectures
• Testing in a quiet place, for students who are easily distracted

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