Accommodations

Accommodations:

• These are changes in procedures or materials to ensure equitable access to instructional and assessment content

• Accommodations are only available for students with a current IEP, Section 504 Plan, Transitory Impairment documentation, or an English Learner Plan

• Decisions about accommodations must be made with the best interest of the student in mind 

• Accommodations must be documented in a student’s respective plan using this order of precedence: – IEP – Section 504 Plan – EL plan/documentation – Transitory impairment documentation 

Testing Accommodations:

Special Print Versions: 

1. Braille Edition

2. Large Print Edition 

3. One Test Item Per Page Edition 

4. Large Print/One Test Item Per Page Edition 

Assistive Technology Devices and Special Arrangements: 

1. Assistive Technology Devices 

2. Braille Write/Slate and Stylus 

3. Cranmer Abacus 

4. Dictation to a Scribe 

5. Interpreter/Transliterator Signs/Cued Test 

6. Magnification Devices 

7. Student Marks Answers in Test Book (MIB) 

8. Student Reads Test Aloud to Self 

9. Test Read Aloud (in English) 

Special Test Environments: – Multiple Testing Sessions – Scheduled Extended Time (Ext Time) – Testing in a Separate Room (SS)

Common Classroom Accommodations/Modifications:

1. Preferential Seating

2. Copy of Teacher Notes

3. Pass to see Counselor/Case Manager (Behavior)

4. Audio Books

5. Graphic Organizers

6. Calculator

7. Computer for Typing

8. Extra Time for Projects/Classwork

https://www.dpi.nc.gov/districts-schools/testing-and-school-accountability/testing-policy-and-operations/testing-accommodations

Accommodations

How to Find Student Accommodations for IEP 

in the ECATS System 

General Directions 

❖ Login to ECATS from your WakeID portal, click ECATS icon 

❖ Click on “Students” in the header bar or click on students located in your “caseload” located  to the bottom left on ECATS opening page. 

❖ Click on “Students” in the header bar, then type the student’s last name in the appropriate  box and then click View Students at the bottom 

❖ Click on the student’s name and it will bring you to the “Student Profile” page ❖ Click on “Documents” in the sub-header 

❖ Scroll down on the Documents page – each of the documents are hyperlinks that will take  you to a PDF. The documents are in order from most recent (at the top) to oldest (at the  bottom) 

FOR IEPs: 

• Open the most recent document titled “IEP Document” – this is the entire IEP • You will be looking for the section with the title “Least Restrictive Environment (Classroom  Activities)” 

• This will describe the Classes and their respective Accommodations  

• Following that will be accommodations for any Standardized Assessments – it will be  labeled “State and District Assessments”