Education and Early Childhood Development: Adaptation and Modification Defined

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Adaptation and Modification Defined

The following definitions illustrate the distinction between adaptation and modification.

Adaptation: A documented process that allows a student with special educational needs to participate in the prescribed provincial curriculum with changes in format, instructional strategies and/or assessment procedures that retain the learning outcomes of the curriculum. This adaptation may include alternate formats, instructional strategies and/or assessment procedures.

Full credit will be granted for such courses but adaptations used will be documented and kept on file.

Modification: A process which changes the prescribed curriculum to meet a student's special educational needs. Modified courses do not provide the same credit as a prescribed course. Details of the modified course must be included in the student's file and the transcript should indicate that the course has been modified.

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