Assessing 5 SEA Policy: What is your SEA Students who are policy on alternative mode to not braille measure English language proficiency proficiency for students who are blind and are not Braille WIDA does not proficient? recommend 1.3 administering State Response: For students who ELLs Identified ACCESS for ELLs in are not proficient in Braille or who with Blindness braille to students are in the beginning stages of or Visual who are not learning Braille, IEP Teams should Impairments proficient in consider the Human Reader for English-based Items and Human Reader for Page 6 Braille. Please Response Options (page 19 of the check with your WIDA Accessibility Features and SEA on how to Accommodations Manual). NOTE: assess blind ELLs Human Read Aloud is not available who are not on the Reading domain of ACCESS proficient in and should be omitted if the student braille. cannot read Braille.
5 1.3 ELLs Identified with Blindness or Visual Impairments Page 6 Assessing Students who are not braille proficiency WIDA does not recommend administering ACCESS for ELLs in braille to students who are not proficient in English-based Braille. Please check with your SEA on how to assess blind ELLs who are not proficient in braille. SEA Policy: What is your SEA policy on alternative mode to measure English language proficiency for students who are blind and are not Braille proficient? State Response: For students who are not proficient in Braille or who are in the beginning stages of learning Braille, IEP Teams should consider the Human Reader for Items and Human Reader for Response Options (page 19 of the WIDA Accessibility Features and Accommodations Manual). NOTE: Human Read Aloud is not available on the Reading domain of ACCESS and should be omitted if the student cannot read Braille.