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Step 4: Choose the Accommodation
Write, Report, and Document
People with learning disabilities might have difficulty with the cognitive or the physical process of writing. Accommodation ideas include:
- Cognitive process of writing:
- People with learning disabilities might have difficulty organizing a written project, identifying themes or ideas, structuring sentences or paragraphs, or identifying and/or correcting grammar errors.
- Use Inspiration software, a computerized graphic organizer
- Use Texthelp Read & Write Gold, a software program assisting with spelling, reading, and grammar
- Provide electronic/talking dictionaries and spellcheckers
- Create written forms to prompt the writer for information needed
- Allow the individual to create a verbal response instead of a written response
- Permit use of reference books such as a thesaurus or dictionary
- Use writing software to improve or enhance written documents
- Physical process of writing:
- People with learning disabilities may have difficulty with the physical process of writing. It may be difficult to fill in blanks, bubble in dots, line up numbers or words in a column, on a line, or within a margin. Handwriting may be illegible.
- Provide writing aids
- Use line guides and column guides
- Supply bold line paper
- Permit type-written response instead of hand-written response
- Allow use of personal computers, including Alpha Smart, Palm, Blackberry, or other tablet PC.
- Use Inspiration software, a computerized graphic organizer
- Use speech recognition software that recognizes the user's voice and changes it to text on the computer screen
