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Assessing Students with Special Needs, Accommodating Hearing Impairments,…
Assessing Students with Special Needs
Types of Disabilities
Physical (hearing, visual impairment)
Cognitive (Down syndrome, dyslexia)
Key issues
Unfair advantage
Assisstive technology
Test score meaning
Core Categories of Accommodations
Giving students extra time or more breaks because they might get tired quickly
Methods for recording or providing answers
Delivering test stimuli via text or audio.
Making the language simpler (but this is usually not allowed in English level tests).
Help for Different Students
Students can use special chairs or keyboards.
Important Things to Know
There is a big discussion about whether listening to a text is the same as "reading" it.
People who read Braille are usually 50% slower than people who read normal text.
Because reading Braille is slow and tiring, these students definitely need more time to finish the test.
Students can use headphones or sign language for instructions.
Growing awareness of ethical issues in language
assessment
Research
Taylor and Khalifa (2013)on stakeholder perspectives
Shaw and Weir (2007) on dyslexia
The professionalization of language testing
Accommodating Hearing Impairments
Audio Adjustments
Visual Delivery
Sign Language
Reading Challenges
Reading Challenges
Learning Challenges
Individual Profiles
dyslexia
aphasia
Processing Time
Support Tools