NCEO recently published an accommodations toolkit. This toolkit provides easy-to-use summaries of the academic research literature on specific accommodations for students with disabilities as well as companion accessibility policy analyses.

The accommodations toolkit is organized by accommodation and currently includes research summaries for braille, extended time, familiar proctor/test administrator, student reads to self, tactile graphics, test breaks, testing over multiple days, text-to-speech, and word prediction. The toolkit also includes policy analyses that summarize how each accommodation was included in states’ accessibility policies. The resources in the toolkit are designed to support the work of state education agencies, but may also be helpful to technical assistance providers, researchers, and others. The toolkit will continue to grow as NCEO publishes research summaries and policy analyses for additional accommodations.