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  1. What are the six basic steps in Baumgartner’s process of developing individualized adaptations?

  2. What student learning, instructional, physical/sensory/motor, motivation, and environmental factors must be considered when identifying and developing adaptations?

  3. What are the three basic intervention options?

  4. Why is it important to consider a student’s performance in varied settings (home, school, community)?

  5. What important step do professionals skilled at developing adaptations take once student assessment is complete?

  6. What are some considerations when selecting instructional priorities?

  7. What are the four basic types of instructional adaptations? What are examples of each?

  8. What are some examples of adaptive materials and devices?

  9. What criteria should be evaluated to determining the effectiveness of adaptive devices?

  10. What are some examples of vocational adaptations?

  11. What factors should be carefully considered before determining which adaptations individual students should be use?

  12. What are some of the pitfalls of creating or using adaptions? What precautions can be taken to avoid these pitfalls?




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