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Curricular Adaptations for Children with Special Needs
ORAL PRESENTATION
AAC device
Alter voice
Alternate assignments: write report, create model, take test
American Idol
Another student reading report out loud
Answer questions regarding stories (open-ended)
Anxiety reduction activities
Assistive technology
Audio tape/prerecorded
Augmentative communication devices
Back toward audience
Bag report
Charades
Cheerleading
Choral speaking
Choral/partner reading
Circle time activities
Cloth/rope to wrap hand while speaking- beginning & end, option of fast/slow
Colored overlays
Comedy
Community circles
Cue cards for time left
Cue cards/nonverbal signals
Debate
Demonstration on real life experiences
Design a web page
Dictated on recorder, then played
Diorama
Display boards
Do oral interviews before the presentation
Draw or take pictures
Dress as a character
Dynavox, DynaMo, Go-Talk
Field trips to observe speakers
Give clear expectations on time and content
Give option of passing during Q&A
Group with assigned roles
How-to demo
Involve topics of intense focus
Job in a group project(point to display)
Karaoke
Let children retell stories
Lip sync
Make a poster
Make it into a game
Meaning to presentation/relevance
Memorization
Microphones
Music Props
Music therapy
Narrow scope of topic
News reports
Note cards
Old TV to present through
One person talks, one person acts it out
“Oprah”
Outline
Overhead projector
Pantomime
Partner up with visual aid
Partnering
PECS symbols
Performance assessments
Photo story
Picture presentation
Podium/Stand
Pointer
Power Point
Practice in front of mirror
Practicing to small group
Predetermined group that student is comfortable with
Pre-rehearsed questions following presentation
Present behind podium
Present to teacher first, then audience
Present with buddy
Present with poster
Presenting to teacher only
Pretending to be assigned character
Props, visual aides
Puppet shows
Rap
Readers workshop
Rehearsing
Relaxation techniques
Review progression of steps
Role playing
Rubrics
School PA announcements
Scripts
Sensory activities
Shorten presentation
Show and tell
Show tape instead of presenting
Signing
Singing bee
Singing/dancing
Sitting at desk while presenting
Slide show set to music
Small object to fidget to control large fidgets
Smaller audience
Smart board
Social story before
Speaker phone delivered from another home
Start at comfort level: example: Touching numbers on a calendar
Starting early so it is not as intimidating
Storytelling
Student directed grading/rubric
Student news show
Student of the week
Students own work space
Switches/augmentative communication
‘Talking stick’ to pass around
Teleprompter
Theatre/plays
Tri-fold poster presentation’
TV interview
Use of costume-fake glasses, cape, hat, etc.
Use of cue cards
Use topics of interest for presentation
Video tape
Visual cues- i.e. props
Visual outline/map to organize thoughts
Visualize audience in underwear
Watch video examples of yourself and others
Wax people on/off
Wear sunglasses
AAC device
Alter voice
Alternate assignments: write report, create model, take test
American Idol
Another student reading report out loud
Answer questions regarding stories (open-ended)
Anxiety reduction activities
Assistive technology
Audio tape/prerecorded
Augmentative communication devices
Back toward audience
Bag report
Charades
Cheerleading
Choral speaking
Choral/partner reading
Circle time activities
Cloth/rope to wrap hand while speaking- beginning & end, option of fast/slow
Colored overlays
Comedy
Community circles
Cue cards for time left
Cue cards/nonverbal signals
Debate
Demonstration on real life experiences
Design a web page
Dictated on recorder, then played
Diorama
Display boards
Do oral interviews before the presentation
Draw or take pictures
Dress as a character
Dynavox, DynaMo, Go-Talk
Field trips to observe speakers
Give clear expectations on time and content
Give option of passing during Q&A
Group with assigned roles
How-to demo
Involve topics of intense focus
Job in a group project(point to display)
Karaoke
Let children retell stories
Lip sync
Make a poster
Make it into a game
Meaning to presentation/relevance
Memorization
Microphones
Music Props
Music therapy
Narrow scope of topic
News reports
Note cards
Old TV to present through
One person talks, one person acts it out
“Oprah”
Outline
Overhead projector
Pantomime
Partner up with visual aid
Partnering
PECS symbols
Performance assessments
Photo story
Picture presentation
Podium/Stand
Pointer
Power Point
Practice in front of mirror
Practicing to small group
Predetermined group that student is comfortable with
Pre-rehearsed questions following presentation
Present behind podium
Present to teacher first, then audience
Present with buddy
Present with poster
Presenting to teacher only
Pretending to be assigned character
Props, visual aides
Puppet shows
Rap
Readers workshop
Rehearsing
Relaxation techniques
Review progression of steps
Role playing
Rubrics
School PA announcements
Scripts
Sensory activities
Shorten presentation
Show and tell
Show tape instead of presenting
Signing
Singing bee
Singing/dancing
Sitting at desk while presenting
Slide show set to music
Small object to fidget to control large fidgets
Smaller audience
Smart board
Social story before
Speaker phone delivered from another home
Start at comfort level: example: Touching numbers on a calendar
Starting early so it is not as intimidating
Storytelling
Student directed grading/rubric
Student news show
Student of the week
Students own work space
Switches/augmentative communication
‘Talking stick’ to pass around
Teleprompter
Theatre/plays
Tri-fold poster presentation’
TV interview
Use of costume-fake glasses, cape, hat, etc.
Use of cue cards
Use topics of interest for presentation
Video tape
Visual cues- i.e. props
Visual outline/map to organize thoughts
Visualize audience in underwear
Watch video examples of yourself and others
Wax people on/off
Wear sunglasses
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