Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), employers must make reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities. Examples of such adjustments include making facilities accessible by installing ramps, providing readers for blind personnel, or allowing for more frequent breaks during the workday.

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Adjustments made to tasks or activities in the workplace and at academic institutions to allow individuals with disabilities access to a job or educational program.

Reasonable Accommodations

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An individualized academic plan that is created for a child with a disability that outlines the child's unique educational needs, goals, and the accommodations they are entitled to. Found in 20 U.S.C § 1412(4) (2018)

Individualized Education Program (IEP)

Ensuring that all people have the ability to utilize a product, facility, or service, regardless of any disability they may have. Accessibility may include the modification of existing infrastructure, products, or services or designing them with disabled users in mind.

Accessibility

Accommodations refer to adaptations that are tailored to a specific individual's unique needs. Whereas, accessibility refers to design choices that are not created with a specific individual in mind but still attempt to make a product, service, or environment accessible to as many people as possible regardless of disability.
Accessibility is a more general approach while accommodations are a more individualized approach.

Difference between Accessibility and Accommodation

GLDs are shown to have incredible duality in their characteristics and needs, thus requiring tailored, customized accommodation to best address their needs. Educators commonly find difficulty in providing the tailored accommodation due to the need for freedom to explore the talents causing giftedness, while also getting support for their individual needs caused by disability. Educators could improve current accommodations by broadening the identification and assessment processes for students suspected to be GLDs, allowing them to include the wider variety of characteristics stemming from the duality these students. This will allow for earlier identification, and earlier support.

Accommodations For Gifted Students with Learning Disabilities

The two most popular types of support are interventions (helping students obtain better functional capabilities, through tutors, remedial courses etc) and accommodations (changing the educational environment so these students can still succeed, through technology, human helpers etc)

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