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Are your IEP teams using student data to select the best
type of reading accommodations?

 
 

There’s no more second-guessing with a new FREE guide developed by two IEP team leaders, Dr. Denise DeCoste and Linda Bastiani Wilson, MA.

 
 
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  The Protocol for Accommodations in Reading framework (PAR), guides data-based reading accommodation recommendations—human reader, audiobook, or text reader (like Read:OutLoud). Anyone on the IEP team can administer PAR to systematize how reading accommodations are recommended on a student level or across the school district.
 
 

See for yourself…download PAR for FREE Now!

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PAR Includes the Tools You Need to Be Successful

 
  Protocol—guides your team to collect data to compare independent reading, reading with a human reader and reading with a text reader

Reading Samples—provides eight reading passages (four narrative, four expository) and vocabulary questions for each grade level, grades 3rd through 10th

Quizzes—contains comprehension quizzes for each reading passage—factual, topic-related, inferential and vocabulary

Multiple Formats—reading passages are available in Word, PDF and ePUB so that you can use them in Bookstream, Don Johnston’s cloud-based accessible eBook manager, or within your text reader (like Read:OutLoud)

 
   


Watch an On-Demand PAR Webinar

Watch a recorded webinar delivered by Denise DeCoste that will help you get the PAR Framework off the ground and immediately working in your setting.

Choose your webinar platform (72min)

Mac (211MB) 

Windows (58MB)

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The PAR webinar covers:

  • Research about reading accommodations
  • The motivation behind creating PAR
  • How to carefully consider a reading accommodation
  • A process to compare performance across accommodations
  • Forms for collecting data, making recommendations and sharing outcomes