What is the relationship between accommodations & accessible instructional materials? How are they the same? How are they different? Is one a subset of the other?

Contributed by Kristin Hope, Nina Gregory, Roberta Pawlowski, and Kristen Emeric
(Table 8)

Relationship and the same:

• Both allow students to participate and progress in the curriculum and meet the standards
• Both give students the opportunity to access FAPE

How they the different?

• Accommodations are documented strategies that have been found to be provide students equal access to the curriculum
• AIM is provided after a determination of need for materials that are more effective for students to access the curriculum
• AIM has to do specific materials (operative word)
• Accommodations are not only materials, but also deal with environment, and the student supports needed to help the student access the curriculum

They can be a subset of the other, if they both assist the student to participate and progress in the curriculum.