Online Enrichment for Special Student Populations

IEP Online Accommodations

Goal: Supporting students with Visual Impairment:

Strategy: Making the Chromebook easier to see:

• Increase the size of the online content

• Increase the size of the curser

• Use "highlights" around the curser, text caret or keyboard focused item

• Invert colors

Goal: Improved Access to Digital Text

Strategy: Leverage Chromebooks Text to Speech Features

• Select to Speak: on demand spoken feedback for specific text or sections of the screen

• Chromevox: Full system has spoken feedback, for students with more significant vision loss

Goal: Helping Students With Executive Functioning Challenges

Strategy: Create options for frequent check ins

• Use calendar reminders

• Set up a system of digital rewards using Google Classroom and Google Keep

• Google Form check ins

Goal: Supporting Students With Written Expression Challenges

Strategy: Empowering students to use their voice to type

• Use Chromebook systemwide dictation

• Dictation within the virtual keyboard

• Google Docs voice typing

Goal: Increase Behavior Support for Better Completion of Work

Strategy: Remote Support

• Student completing work with a teaching aid

Goal: Increasing Focus During Daily work

Strategy: Allowing frequent breaks during lesson completion

• Using brain break tools such as GoNoodle, Chrome Music Lab, etc

Goal: Increase Productivity

Strategy: Promoting focus and better time management

• Provide timers and focus reminders during work time

• Teach students how to use full screen mode to reduce distractions

• Use Chrome Extension Stay Focused to limit time on specific sites