Accommodations: An adaptation or change to educational environments and practices designed to help students overcome the challenges presented by their disabilities and to allow them to access the same instructional opportunities as students without disabilities. An accommodation does not change the expectations for learning or reduce the requirements of the task.
Modifications: Any of a number of services or supports that allow a student to access the general education curriculum but in a way that fundamentally alters the content or curricular expectations in question
Interventions: An instructional technique designed to improve or remediate a certain set of skills
Resource/Tool: Materials used to enhance instruction
Evidence based: The entire program or method are based on practices demonstrated effective through research.
Research based: Parts or components of the program or method are based on practices demonstrated effective through research.