Accommodations for

Students with Special

Language and
Learning Needs

Accommodations
The following list below is a list of accommodations for
students with Attention Disorders, Emotional Behavior
Disorder, Autism, Reading Disabilities, and English Language
Learners.
These students need a variety of accommodations to support
and guide them in the classroom. The next few slides explains
three strategies I will implement in order to accommodate
these students.

Zen Zone
In my physical environment, I included a Zen Zone. This will help students with Attention
Disorders, Emotional Behavior Disorders, and students with Autism. Students with Emotional
Behavior Disorders tend to have trouble interacting with their peers and teachers, they may act
out in class, they may not seem to care about school, they may be very impulsive, and
demonstrate immaturity (Center, P. A. C. E. R., 2006). A Zen Zone will provide these students
with a comfortable place to go to when they need to calm down and relax. If a student with
Emotional Behavior Disorders is acting out, the Zen Zone will be a safe place where this
student can cool off and be alone. Along with this, students with Attention Disorders tend to
have trouble focusing and staying on task (National Alliance on Mental Illness, n.d). These
students can use the Zen Zone to work individually without any distractions and can focus on
the assigned task. Students will be more relaxed, less distracted, and will work hard at the Zen
Zone. The Zen Zone helps student with Autism because they have sensory sensitivity (Online
College, 2012). The Zen Zone will provide these students with an area that will help this
sensitivity by providing them with noise cancellation head phones to tune out the class.

Life Sound Track

My plans for getting to know the students includes a life soundtrack. This will

help students with Autism, Attention Disorders, Emotional Behavior Disorders,

and English Language Learners. Students are to pick three songs that describes
their life and personality. This will help me get to know each student. Building this
relationship will help me with my classroom management. Students will be less
likely to act out if they know that I care about their interests and life. According
to Kluth, a beneficial strategy for students with Autism is to help them build
relationships with their peers and teachers so they feel comfortable (Kluth, P.,
2016). The Life Sound Track will promote positive relationships amongst the
whole class because they have the opportunity to get to know each other. This
accommodation will help English Language Learners because it will help them
build strong relationships with their peers. These learners will get to know their
peers better and can practice their English in a social setting. In addition, the life
sound track can be used as a reward system. I will reward the students by playing
the class soundtrack when they earn it. Reward systems help students who have
Attention Disorders, Emotional Behavior Disorders, and students with Autism.
According to the websites Do 2 Learn and Understood, a valuable strategy to
control students with Emotional Behavior Disorders and Attention Disorders is to
motivate them by offering incentives and celebrating their success. This helps
these students because a positive reward motivates them to control their behavior
and behave appropriately (Do2Learn, 2016) (Understood, 2014).

ThinkDots

My plans for building a strong classroom community and helping the students to get to know each
other includes the use of Community Building ThinkDots. This will help students with Attention
Disorders, Emotional Behavior Disorders, Autism, Reading Disabilities, and English Language
Learners. ThinkDots is a strategy that can be used for community building and content
knowledge. Community Building ThinkDots helps all students because they have the opportunity
to learn about each other and build new relationships. This helps students with Attention
Disorders because they will be engaged since the task is about their life and they get to move
around and discuss with their peers. A great strategy to control students behavior who are
diagnosed with Attention Disorder is to give them brain breaks (Understood, 2014). ThinkDots are
similar to brain breaks because the students get to move around and talk with their peers. This
will keep students with ADHD motivated because they are constantly moving and socializing. This
helps students with Emotional Behavior Disorders and Autism because groups will be assigned so
these students will feel more comfortable, will not feel left out, and will have a peer in their group
to help and support them (Kluth, P., 2016) (Do2Learn, 2016). Community Building ThinkDots will
help students with Reading Disabilities build relationships. Since these students can trust and
work with their peers, they can receive help on group tasks. This strategy will help the students
with Reading Disabilities feel comfortable while working with their peers. This strategy will also
help English Language Learners because they will have the opportunity to talk to their peers in a
social setting. This will give these students a chance to practice their English in a laid back
scenario. Community Building ThinkDots will help the students get to know each other and learn
what they all have in common. Once students know how to successfully do this task, they can try
it based on the content.

References
Center, P. A. C. E. R. (2006). What is an emotional or behavioral disorder. ACTion Sheet: PHP-c,
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Do2Learn. (2016). Strategies for emotional disturbances. Retrieved April 06, 2016, from http://
do2learn.com/disabilities/CharacteristicsAndStrategies/EmotionalDisturbance_Strategies.html

Kluth, P. (2016). Supporting students with autism: 10 ideas for inclusive classrooms. Retrieved
April 05, 2016, from http://www.paulakluth.com/readings/autism/article-autism-tenideas /

National Alliance on Mental Illness (n.d). ADHD. Retrieved April 25, 2016 from http://
www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-Conditions/ADHD

Online College. (2012). Autism and learning. Retrieved April 28, 2016 from
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2012/01/17/autism-learning /

Understood. (2014). Classroom accommodations to help students with ADHD. Retrieved April
25, 2016, from https://
www.understood.org/en/school-learning/partnering-with-childs-school/instructional-strategies
/at-a-glance-classroom-accommodations-for-adhd