Mrs. Morris' Class

Parental Suggestions on How to Support Your Special Needs Child

• Setup a daily schedule that involves academic and leisure time- let your child be apart of the planning 

• Reward your student for completing assignments 
• Present materials in small increments 
• Discuss rewards your child might want to work for 
• Use a timer or a visual cue for work/break times 
• Create an area in the home where work can be completely free of distractions

Common Accommodations (Changes the way information is presented)

• Listen to audio recordings instead of reading text
• Learn content from audiobooks, movies, videos, and digital media instead of reading print versions
• Work with fewer items per page or line
• Work with text in a larger print size
• Read questions or passages aloud to student 
• Hear instructions spoken aloud
• Use an index card or other materials to use when reading 
• Use visual presentations of verbal material, such as word webs
• Get a written list of instructions
• Have student restate information
• Graph paper to assist in organizing or lining up math problems
• Quiet corner or room to calm down and relax when anxious
• Use of manipulatives
• Verbal and visual cues regarding directions and staying on task
• Agenda book and checklists
• Immediate feedback
• Work-in-progress check
• Personalized examples

Response accommodations (changes the way kids complete assignments or tests)

• Give responses in a form (spoken or written) that’s easier for them
• Dictate answers to a scribe who writes or types
• Capture responses on an audio recorder
• Use a spelling dictionary or digital spell-checker
• Use a word processor to type notes or assignments
• Use a calculator or table of “math facts”

Educational based websites for skill practice and review that can be used in conjunction with educational materials provided by teachers:

• https://pbskids.org/
• https://www.coolmath.com/
• https://www.abcya.com/
• https://www.hoodamath.com/
• https://www.mobymax.com/
• http://www.readwritethink.org/
• https://scratch.mit.edu/
• https://storybird.com/
• https://www.starfall.com/h/
• https://www.scholastic.com/home/
• https://ziggityzoom.com/
• https://www.mathplayground.com/
• https://www.khanacademy.org/
• https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

Websites with social skill activities that can be done from home:

• https://www.friendshipcircle.org/blog/2011/03/28/12-activities-to-help-your-child-with-social-skills/
• https://www.parentingscience.com/social-skills-activities.html
• https://www.encourageplay.com/blog/10-engaging-and-fun-social-skills-group-activities-for-kids
• https://healthiersfexcel.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/101-Ways-to-Teach-Children-Social-Skills.pdf
• https://nobelcoaching.com/emotional-skills/

Resource Teacher In-Class Support Grades Kdg, 1st, 2nd & 4th