Special Support

We asked if programs were able to provide extra help to students and who it is that gives students this extra help.

• 95% of programs are able to provide some amount of one-on-one help
• 32% reported volunteers as the exclusive source of one-on-one help to learners
• Volunteers are reported as a combined source of help with: practitioners by 17% of respondents, teachers‘ assistants by 5% of respondents and tutors by 8% of respondents
• Tutors are the next most common source of one-on-one help reported at a rate of 11% exclusively and in combination with volunteers by 8% as noted above.
• Practitioners reported they are the least likely to provide students with one-on-one help, as only 3.7% of respondents reported being the exclusive source of extra help and in combination with teachers assistants by 11%
• Exclusive teacher assistant one-on-one help equivalent to that of practitioners and in combination with the other persons providing one-on- one as in the reported proportions noted above

Other common accommodations used are extra task completion time (95%) and curriculum adaptations to assist students with learning difficulties (92%).

Adjustments to curriculum was another form of support mentioned, provided by way of “having students work at own pace”, “adaptation of course” or “curriculum adaptations to an extent”.

Use of technology such as “computers”, “computer assisted instruction”, “the integration of technology into instruction-web-based” and “on-line learning resources” are additional teaching approaches.